By Business Reporter | It is 2 years later, and the Invictus Energy’s company whose business activity was in 2018 dangling on Emmerson Mnangagwa’s press conference to “strike the magic” for a share value, is still to draw a litre of oil.
Emmerson Mnangagwa
Not even a puff of gas has been sucked and yet Mnangagwa says the signing of that agreement is a massive leap towards tapping into the oil and gas industry, which is a new frontier in the country’s mining history.
“Earlier this year, my Government signed a Petroleum Exploration and Development Production Agreement with GeoAssociates (Pvt) Ltd to carry out exploration and production of oil and gas in Muzarabani, Mashonaland Central Province,” Mnangagwa said quoted by the state media.
“The signing of that agreement is a massive leap towards tapping into the oil and gas industry, which is a new frontier in the country’s mining history
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“This presents huge, unique and competitive investment opportunities. These include production of liquid fuels as well as various downstream linkages such as electricity generation, production of liquid petroleum gas (LPG), fertilisers and use in the petro-chemical industry,” he continued.
2 years ago, the company director, Scott Macmillan briefly spoke to ZimEye… SEE INTERVIEW EXCERPT BELOW [TIMELINE 32:00]:
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Meanwhile, a comment from the company was awaited at the time of writing.
By A Correspondent- The infamous MaShurugwi machete gangs have reportedly resurfaced in Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, and are said to be impregnating minors
The return of violence prompted Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro and Chief Bepura to summon village heads on Wednesday in a bid to safeguard villagers’ lives.
During the meeting, village heads told the lawmaker and the chief that they were living in fear of the machete gangs.
“These gangs are also pouncing on our young daughters and are spreading sexually transmitted infections. As the MP and chief, may you please act because our area has become one of the dangerous places to live in,” said a villager.
Chief Bepura blamed the police for failing to contain the situation. “The biggest problem in this area is our police. They have become so corrupt to the effect that they cannot even enforce the law as they are mandated to.
“I have engaged them several times, but no action is being taken and yet these gangs are known and it should not take them time to arrest them. They prioritise money more than their job and my people are now at risk,” he said.
Chief Bepura said a local villager named Mbela, who has a gold mining claim in the area was working with the gangs and had provided accommodation to the criminals.
“Little did I know that we have accommodated criminals who were on a mission to destroy my area,” he added.
The village heads called on the Mines ministry to temporarily close Mbela’s claim and ensure that the gangs are driven away from the village.
The MP said machete gangs were dangerous as they were armed.
“I have heard all your concerns, the Ministry of Mines is aware of this meeting. I will engage them and the police,” he said.
Zanu PF youth member Paul Rwodzi said the machete gangs were impregnating minors in the area.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he could not comment as he was in a meeting.
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women will on June 5 commemorate World Environment Day at various centres across the country.
The MDC Assembly of Women has lined up different activities in line with the World Environment Day theme.
Last Friday, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa launched the Tsvaira Zimbabwe Programme in Mabvuku, Harare despite attempts by ZRP cops to disrupt the event.
See below the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women statement on World Environment Day:
New guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) sets essential standards to inform future research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, particularly in addressing issues relating to ethics, safety, affordability and effectiveness.
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases, including dengue and Zika, affect millions globally. More than 400 000 people a year die from malaria alone. If proven safe, effective and affordable, genetically modified vector mosquitoes could be a valuable new tool to fight these diseases and eliminate their enormous health, social and economic burden.
The guidance framework for testing genetically modified mosquitoes, developed in partnership with TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, and the GeneConvene Global Collaborative, an initiative of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, describes best practices to ensure that the study and evaluation of genetically modified mosquitoes as public health tools is safe, ethical and rigorous.
Current strategies for limiting transmission of mosquito-borne diseases are only partially effective. New, complementary approaches are needed to close the gaps in current vector control interventions, such as effective control of outdoor biting, and to provide alternatives to manage the increasing threat of insecticide resistance. Research suggests genetically modified mosquitoes could be a powerful and cost-effective tool to supplement existing interventions.
“We urgently need innovative approaches to help control mosquito-borne diseases, which have a devastating impact around the world,” said Dr John Reeder, TDR Director. “Genetically modified mosquitoes is one such approach, but we want to be sure it’s fully and responsibly evaluated, as outlined in a recent WHO position statement.”
“Like any new public health intervention, genetically modified mosquitoes raise new questions for researchers, affected communities and other stakeholders,” said Dr Michael Santos, Director of the GeneConvene Global Collaborative.
“The updated guidance framework aims to answer these questions and help ensure that testing of genetically modified mosquitoes is as rigorous as it is for other public health products – and that it generates quality results to guide decisions about if and how these technologies are used.”
“Over the last 2 decades, we have achieved remarkable results with existing malaria control tools, averting more than 7 million deaths and 1.5 billion cases of the disease,” said Dr Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme.
“However, progress towards key targets of our global malaria strategy remains off course. Genetically modified mosquitoes are one of a number of promising new tools that could help speed the pace of progress against malaria and other vector-borne diseases.”
“The incidence of dengue continues to increase and affect people in over 129 countries, so we need more sustainable vector control tools to stem the tide of dengue and other arboviral diseases and a few novel tools offer the potential to control these diseases,” said Dr Mwele Malecela, Director of the WHO Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases.
“We welcome this new guidance from WHO which will help countries suffering from mosquito-borne diseases to evaluate a promising new intervention,” said Professor Aggrey Ambali, Senior Advisor at the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD), the development agency of the African Union.
The new guidance addresses specific questions and challenges associated with research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, including standards for decision-making about how and when testing should proceed.
By establishing a common set of expectations that is specific to genetically modified mosquitoes, the new resource will enable more informed and rigorous evaluation by researchers, developers, those responsible for regulatory and policy decisions and the people to whom these stakeholders are accountable.
The guidance builds on an earlier document published by TDR and FNIH in 2014, incorporating the latest scientific advancements related to genetic modification of mosquitoes, as well as other key updates and learnings related to safety and ethics, including:
methods for understanding the implications of genetically modified mosquitoes for human health, animal health and the environment; increased understanding of the most effective strategies for risk assessment and stakeholder engagement; clearer criteria for projects to proceed from one testing phase to the next, incorporating descriptions of the steps needed to safely and responsibly take genetically modified mosquito technologies – including those incorporating gene drive – into the field; and a concrete set of safety and efficacy considerations that should be evaluated at each phase of testing, to inform decisions about further testing and implementation…
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A man from Zezani area in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South Province is in a tricky situation that any married man would never want to experience after his wife eloped with an Agritex officer who allegedly lured her with his “Government-issued” motorbike.
Debson Siziba was left heartbroken after his wife of about eight years Mbuyedzedzo Muleya left him with their two children while eloping to her lover Knowledge Gororo, an Agritex officer stationed in the area.
It was gathered that Mbuyedzedzo ditched her husband for Gororo after he “seduced” her with rides on his motorbike.
Narrating his unpleasant experience to B-Metro, a distraught Siziba said sometime in April this year, he discovered that Gororo was having an affair with his wife and was always giving her rides to Beitbridge Town on his motorbike.
He said that led his wife to fall in love with his (Gororo’s) motorcycle.
“They were always phoning each other and during my absence, Gororo would come to my house with his motorbike to see my wife until the day she left home under the pretext that she was visiting her aunt.
“When she didn’t come back the following day, I went to the aunt’s house where I was told that she had lied that she was visiting her. Investigations later established that she had eloped with Gororo and he came with his motorbike and took her away,” said a visibly stressed Siziba.
Siziba who was disturbed by the incident later followed his wife to Gororo’s place. He claimed that when he arrived, his wife locked herself in Gororo’s bedroom.
He got so angry and called the police to come and help him “recover” his wife who was now enjoying the biker’s love.
“Upon arrival, Gororo was not at home but his neighbours told me that my wife was inside the house. To avoid putting the law into my own hands, I called the police who came and demanded that she should open the door for them. She, however, refused, leading to one of the police officers to enter through the window to force her out of the house,” said Siziba.
He said when he asked her to accompany him to their house, Mbuyedzedzo refused before Gororo swiftly came and took her with his motorbike to her parents in Beitbridge.
Siziba said Gororo should be punished as he was allegedly addicted to the thrill of sleeping with married women.
“I want him to compensate me for sleeping with my wife and the matter is now before Chief Sitaudze,” he fumed.
B-Metro spoke to Gororo who, while admitting that Mbuyedzedzo once stayed at his house, denied that they were in an intimate relationship.
“It’s not true that we are in a relationship and the issue is now before Chief Sitaudze. The Chief once ordered me to pay two beasts after Siziba claimed I was bedding his wife.
“We were supposed to go back again on Sunday last week but I didn’t make it because I was involved in an accident on Thursday. What happened is that they had a dispute and after that she met my friend who was using my motorbike and he assisted her,” said Gororo.
Asked on what Mbuyedzedzo was doing at his house when the police came to take her, Gororo said: “She came to my house and stayed for two days saying she had nowhere to go. During that time, she told me that she was no longer interested in her husband because he abused her.”
He added: “It is also not true that Siziba was the one who called the police. I am the one who did so after I came back home from work and found him and other villagers at my house. This was after his wife was seen by neighbours who later alerted him and he quickly came when she was about to leave my house.”
Mbuyedzedzo could not be reached for comment.-B-Metro
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has visited the late family of the late former Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo and pleaded for their endorsement.
Mnangagwa is unpopular in Matabeleland because of the active role he played in the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres.
Mnangagwa who was the CIO minister during that time, wrote a false report to the then Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, advising him to declare war against the people of Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, lying that they had guns which did not surrender to the government in 1980.
Speaking after visiting the Nkomo family and the Joshua Nkomo Museum in Matsheumhlophe yesterday, Mnangagwa said Government was “embarrassed” for having allowed the Nkomo family to take lead in preserving the legacy of Dr Nkomo through the establishment of the museum.
He said going forward, they would offer all the possible support to the Nkomo family to ensure that the museum gets the status it deserves.
“My appreciation goes to the (Nkomo) family who has done this preservation of the history of Father Zimbabwe; this was a project initiated by the family.
“We as Government feel embarrassed that we did not lead ourselves, but now that it is there, I have assured my young sister (Mrs Thandiwe Nkomo-Ibrahim, daughter to the late Dr Nkomo) that she will receive support from Government to make sure that this place gets the status that it deserves,” Mnangagwa.
By A Correspondent- ZESA said power shedding that has been experienced in most parts of the country in the past few days was caused by a “depressed” power supply due to a technical fault at Hwange Power Station.
In a statement on Thursday, the power utility said: “Zesa Holding would like to advise its valued customers countrywide that there is a limited power supply in the national electricity grid due to technical faults at Hwange at 11:41 AM yesterday.
The depressed power supply situation has also been compounded by the unavailability of normal imports levels due to the loss of interconnection to Eskom of South Africa. The interconnection to South Africa has since been restored and recovery of service to optimum levels at Hwange is currently underway,” read the statement.
By A Correspondent- The infamous MaShurugwi machete gangs have reportedly resurfaced in Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, where they recently attacked and injured four villagers.
The return of violence prompted Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro and Chief Bepura to summon village heads on Wednesday in a bid to safeguard villagers’ lives.
During the meeting, village heads told the lawmaker and the chief that they were living in fear of the machete gangs.
“These gangs are also pouncing on our young daughters and are spreading sexually transmitted infections. As the MP and chief, may you please act because our area has become one of the dangerous places to live in,” said a villager.
Chief Bepura blamed the police for failing to contain the situation. “The biggest problem in this area is our police. They have become so corrupt to the effect that they cannot even enforce the law as they are mandated to.
“I have engaged them several times, but no action is being taken and yet these gangs are known and it should not take them time to arrest them. They prioritise money more than their job and my people are now at risk,” he said.
Chief Bepura said a local villager named Mbela, who has a gold mining claim in the area was working with the gangs and had provided accommodation to the criminals.
“Little did I know that we have accommodated criminals who were on a mission to destroy my area,” he added.
The village heads called on the Mines ministry to temporarily close Mbela’s claim and ensure that the gangs are driven away from the village.
The MP said machete gangs were dangerous as they were armed.
“I have heard all your concerns, the Ministry of Mines is aware of this meeting. I will engage them and the police,” he said.
Zanu PF youth member Paul Rwodzi said the machete gangs were impregnating minors in the area.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he could not comment as he was in a meeting.
By A Correspondent- There was drama Thursday, after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretariat, but the government sought to reverse his decision.
Justice Webster Chinamhora recused himself from the three-judge panel in the morning after lawyers representing Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika, who is the applicant in the matter, asked for his recusal following revelations that he met with JSC secretary Walter Chikwana ahead of the hearing of the case.
Critics say the meeting was meant to pressure the judges to make a ruling in favour of Chief Justice Malaba which would seriously compromise their independence.
Justice Chinamhora then recused himself, confirming that he had, indeed, met with Chikwana.
The remaining two judges, Justices Amy Tsanga and Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba then consulted the JSC, which ruled that they could proceed and hear the matter as a two-judge panel.
The case against Chief Justice Malaba came after his term of office as Chief Justice ended a fortnight ago, with the High Court ruling that he ceased to be the country’s top judicial officer on May 15 when he turned 70 and that a recent constitutional amendment allowing the President to extend his term did not apply to him.
By A Correspondent- There was drama Thursday, after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretariat, but the government sought to reverse his decision.
Justice Webster Chinamhora recused himself from the three-judge panel in the morning after lawyers representing Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika, who is the applicant in the matter, asked for his recusal following revelations that he met with JSC secretary Walter Chikwana ahead of the hearing of the case.
Critics say the meeting was meant to pressure the judges to make a ruling in favour of Chief Justice Malaba which would seriously compromise their independence.
Justice Chinamhora then recused himself, confirming that he had, indeed, met with Chikwana.
The remaining two judges, Justices Amy Tsanga and Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba then consulted the JSC, which ruled that they could proceed and hear the matter as a two-judge panel.
The case against Chief Justice Malaba came after his term of office as Chief Justice ended a fortnight ago, with the High Court ruling that he ceased to be the country’s top judicial officer on May 15 when he turned 70 and that a recent constitutional amendment allowing the President to extend his term did not apply to him.
By A Correspondent- The urgent application in the High Court by the executive director of an NGO to have Chief Justice Luke Malaba found in contempt of court and jailed is now being heard by just two judges after Justice Webster Chinamora recused himself from the original three-judge bench citing professional reasons.
Following his recusal, the remaining two judges Justices — Amy Tsanga and Slyvia Chirawu-Mugomba — took a brief adjournment to decide whether to proceed with a two-judge panel. The two later agreed to continue with the hearing, but the counsel acting for Chief Justice Malaba could not agree and sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision.
The two judges saw no prospects of success on appeal and ordered the hearing to proceed.
All the parties through their legal counsel made their submissions and the two judges reserved judgment to next week.
Most High Court hearings are undertaken by a single judge.
The legal dispute was sparked by the return of the Chief Justice to work on the strength of appeals being noted to the Supreme Court challenging the 15 May High Court decision that neither Chief Justice Malaba nor any other then sitting judge of the Constitutional or Supreme Courts had the option laid out in the latest constitutional amendment to extend their term of office until they were 75.
The three High Court judges said only sitting High Court judges had that option.
The ruling was made on the Chief Justice’s 70th birthday, so he promptly stood aside. But once appeals were noted by the Attorney General and the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage the following week, he then followed the standard legal procedures, that noting an appeal stays a judgment, and returned to work.
This upset the executive director of Forum, Mr Musa Kika, who as one of the applicants in the original urgent application rushed to the High Court seeking the finding that the Chief Justice was in contempt of court and seeking a six-month jail term, although he is prepared to see that suspended so long as the Chief Justice stands aside.
But in his response through counsel, Chief Justice Malaba asked the High Court to reject the application for his arrest on contempt of court charges, arguing that he is lawfully in office.
Advocate Thabani Mpofu argued the matter for Mr Kika while Advocate Lewis Uriri acted for Chief Justice Malaba.
Adv Thembinkosi Magwaliba represented Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi while Mr Addington Chinake argued for the Judicial Service Commission.
By A Correspondent- Three High court Judges have been selected to preside over an urgent application to have Chief Justice Luke Malaba found in contempt of court.
The three whose one of them Justice Webster Chinamora has recused himself are Justices — Amy Tsanga and Slyvia Chirawu-Mugomba.
The two later after Justice Chinamora quit, agreed to continue with the hearing, but the counsel acting for Chief Justice Malaba could not agree and sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision.
The two judges saw no prospects of success on appeal and ordered the hearing to proceed.
All the parties through their legal counsel made their submissions and the two judges reserved judgment to next week.
Most High Court hearings are undertaken by a single judge.
The legal dispute was sparked by the return of the Chief Justice to work on the strength of appeals being noted to the Supreme Court challenging the 15 May High Court decision that neither Chief Justice Malaba nor any other then sitting judge of the Constitutional or Supreme Courts had the option laid out in the latest constitutional amendment to extend their term of office until they were 75.
The three High Court judges said only sitting High Court judges had that option.
The ruling was made on the Chief Justice’s 70th birthday, so he promptly stood aside. But once appeals were noted by the Attorney General and the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage the following week, he then followed the standard legal procedures, that noting an appeal stays a judgment, and returned to work.
This upset the executive director of Forum, Mr Musa Kika, who as one of the applicants in the original urgent application rushed to the High Court seeking the finding that the Chief Justice was in contempt of court and seeking a six-month jail term, although he is prepared to see that suspended so long as the Chief Justice stands aside.
But in his response through counsel, Chief Justice Malaba asked the High Court to reject the application for his arrest on contempt of court charges, arguing that he is lawfully in office.
Advocate Thabani Mpofu argued the matter for Mr Kika while Advocate Lewis Uriri acted for Chief Justice Malaba.
Adv Thembinkosi Magwaliba represented Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi while Mr Addington Chinake argued for the Judicial Service Commission.
By A Correspondent- Outspoken independent Norton lawmaker, Temba Mliswa said the former Chief Justice Luke Malaba, should do the honourable thing and resign.
Malaba is challenging his suspension following a High court order which nullified his continued service because of old age.
1/It’s only proper for CJ Malaba to stop this charade, resign&retire peacefully &gracefully. There’s no need for this circus. It’s a political mess. His integrity& dignity are at stake. He served the country well during his tenure and his retirement would be my best advice to him
— Sabhuku Temba P. Mliswa (@TembaMliswa) June 4, 2021
By A Correspondent-The iconic Birchenough Bridge is on a verge of collapse following years of non-servicing of the bridge, the state media has reported.
The bridge has now been turned into a one-way passage for vehicles weighing less than 25 tonnes as assessments of the structure revealed that it could pose danger to motorists if weight restrictions were not enforced.
There are cracks on both ends of the bridge’s tarmac entry points while the structure shakes each time heavy vehicles drive past.
The ageing Birchenough Bridge, a key tourist attraction, is crying out for attention.
Locals who use the bridge daily as they walk or drive to and from the business centre, work and school are therefore now living in fear of having the 377-metre long structure crumble underneath them.
In fact, pedestrians now fear for their safety to the extent that they run past the bridge to avoid being on the structure concurrently with heavy trucks.
The bridge connects the road between Mutare and Masvingo as well as Buhera and Chipinge districts.
Birchenough Bridge is one of the oldest bridges in the country. Foundations were commenced in April 1934 and were ready for steelwork in November.
The arch span was completed on June 17th, 1935, and the concrete roadway was practically complete at the end of September 1935.
The iconic arch bridge was designed by Engineer Ralph Freeman and was built by Dorman Long.
The structure was named in honour of businessman, Sir John Henry Birchenough, who served as chairman of the Beit Trust.
However, lack of maintenance over the years has seen the structure weakening over time.
The bridge’s structures have also suffered battering from Cyclones Eline and Idai-induced floods.
Around March 2019 when Cyclone Idai hit the country, Save River threatened to flood the bridge.
Locals and an employee at the bridge’s boom gate told The Manica Post that they have never witnessed any maintenance work being carried out on the bridge.
“We have not seen any maintenance works being carried out on this bridge. Misplaced or not, there is genuine fear among locals that the bridge might collapse anytime,” said the boom gate worker who declined to be named citing protocol.
When contacted for comment, Manicaland Provincial Road Engineer, Atherton Zindoga said it was safe to continue using the existing structure under the current load restrictions.
“It is safe to use the existing structure under current load restrictions. “We are watching the structure. An assessment was carried out and we are enforcing weight restrictions.
“We have two options. The first one is to renovate the existing structure so that it can carry loads as required.
“The second one is to build a new structure next to the existing one. Both options require funding and unfortunately the funds are not available at the moment. We have applied for a grant from the Government of Japan,” said Eng Zindoga.
An incensed Norman Mapeza has bemoaned ‘poor officiating’ during FC Platinum’s 1-2 loss to Ngezi Platinum Stars in the Chibuku Super Cup, describing it as ‘killer of the game.’
The defending PSL champions took an early lead through Silas Songani but Bruno Mtigo came on to score a late brace which propelled Madamburo to a 2-1 victory in a clash which lived up to it’s billing.
For Mapeza though, referee Thabani Bamala’s performance was both decisive and regrettable.
“It’s sad,” said a livid Mapeza after the game.
” This makes football lose its value. Somebody cannot just come and take the show like this.”
” This is just a pre season and if we can get such officiating now even before the start of the season proper, where are we heading. We can’t just have somebody come and kill football. It’s not that I am saying we should not lose but it’s the manner we are made to lose.
” Like I said that we are still in pre season where we are preparing the players psychologically and these are kind of things that affects them. The whole of second half he was against my boys. It’s sad,” he added.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe international Talent Chawapiwa has heaped praise on high-flying AmaZulu coach Benni McCarthy, describing him as a game changer in both his play individually and collectively as a team.
McCarthy incredibly-transformed Usuthu when he took over the reigns at the KwaZulu Natal based side, and mounted a title challenge on Mamelodi Sundowns before eventually’settling for a second-place finish which will see them play in the CAF Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.
Even though the slippery Zimbabwean winger did not feature much since McCarthy took over, he reckons the Bafana Bafana all time leading goalscorer has had an effect on the way he (Chawapiwa) plays.
“He is a great coach, you can tell by the results, by the improvement of style of play and what he demands,’’ Chapapiwa was quoted as saying by The Herald.
“Not forgetting, what he did as a player, he was coached by great coaches, the likes of Jose Mourinho, it shows he has what it takes to be a great coach. “The style of football, which he has taught us at Amazulu, is something else.
“We were always fighting relegation, struggling with our type of play but we are now playing good football, with a purpose.
“I have learnt a lot from him, he is a professional coach.
He added: “We call him player, because sometimes, he joins us in training, his behaviour is just like a player. “To us he is our brother, he is in his early 40s and is like our brother, I have learnt a lot from him, if you play well at training, he puts you in.
“He is a guy who gives confidence to his players, who supports his players and wants us to achieve what he achieved.”
New guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) sets essential standards to inform future research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, particularly in addressing issues relating to ethics, safety, affordability and effectiveness.
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases, including dengue and Zika, affect millions globally. More than 400 000 people a year die from malaria alone. If proven safe, effective and affordable, genetically modified vector mosquitoes could be a valuable new tool to fight these diseases and eliminate their enormous health, social and economic burden.
The guidance framework for testing genetically modified mosquitoes, developed in partnership with TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, and the GeneConvene Global Collaborative, an initiative of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, describes best practices to ensure that the study and evaluation of genetically modified mosquitoes as public health tools is safe, ethical and rigorous.
Current strategies for limiting transmission of mosquito-borne diseases are only partially effective. New, complementary approaches are needed to close the gaps in current vector control interventions, such as effective control of outdoor biting, and to provide alternatives to manage the increasing threat of insecticide resistance. Research suggests genetically modified mosquitoes could be a powerful and cost-effective tool to supplement existing interventions.
“We urgently need innovative approaches to help control mosquito-borne diseases, which have a devastating impact around the world,” said Dr John Reeder, TDR Director. “Genetically modified mosquitoes is one such approach, but we want to be sure it’s fully and responsibly evaluated, as outlined in a recent WHO position statement.”
“Like any new public health intervention, genetically modified mosquitoes raise new questions for researchers, affected communities and other stakeholders,” said Dr Michael Santos, Director of the GeneConvene Global Collaborative.
“The updated guidance framework aims to answer these questions and help ensure that testing of genetically modified mosquitoes is as rigorous as it is for other public health products – and that it generates quality results to guide decisions about if and how these technologies are used.”
“Over the last 2 decades, we have achieved remarkable results with existing malaria control tools, averting more than 7 million deaths and 1.5 billion cases of the disease,” said Dr Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme.
“However, progress towards key targets of our global malaria strategy remains off course. Genetically modified mosquitoes are one of a number of promising new tools that could help speed the pace of progress against malaria and other vector-borne diseases.”
“The incidence of dengue continues to increase and affect people in over 129 countries, so we need more sustainable vector control tools to stem the tide of dengue and other arboviral diseases and a few novel tools offer the potential to control these diseases,” said Dr Mwele Malecela, Director of the WHO Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases.
“We welcome this new guidance from WHO which will help countries suffering from mosquito-borne diseases to evaluate a promising new intervention,” said Professor Aggrey Ambali, Senior Advisor at the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD), the development agency of the African Union.
The new guidance addresses specific questions and challenges associated with research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, including standards for decision-making about how and when testing should proceed.
By establishing a common set of expectations that is specific to genetically modified mosquitoes, the new resource will enable more informed and rigorous evaluation by researchers, developers, those responsible for regulatory and policy decisions and the people to whom these stakeholders are accountable.
The guidance builds on an earlier document published by TDR and FNIH in 2014, incorporating the latest scientific advancements related to genetic modification of mosquitoes, as well as other key updates and learnings related to safety and ethics, including:
methods for understanding the implications of genetically modified mosquitoes for human health, animal health and the environment; increased understanding of the most effective strategies for risk assessment and stakeholder engagement; clearer criteria for projects to proceed from one testing phase to the next, incorporating descriptions of the steps needed to safely and responsibly take genetically modified mosquito technologies – including those incorporating gene drive – into the field; and a concrete set of safety and efficacy considerations that should be evaluated at each phase of testing, to inform decisions about further testing and implementation…
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women will on June 5 commemorate World Environment Day at various centres across the country.
The MDC Assembly of Women has lined up different activities in line with the World Environment Day theme.
Last Friday, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa launched the Tsvaira Zimbabwe Programme in Mabvuku, Harare despite attempts by ZRP cops to disrupt the event.
See below the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women statement on World Environment Day:
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women will on June 5 commemorate World Environment Day at various centres across the country.
The MDC Assembly of Women has lined up different activities in line with the World Environment Day theme.
Last Friday, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa launched the Tsvaira Zimbabwe Programme in Mabvuku, Harare despite attempts by ZRP cops to disrupt the event.
See below the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women statement on World Environment Day:
A FUMING man confronted his mother-in-law at her home and slapped her and also assaulted her with a chair for failing to give him back his television set that he had lent her.
Simamba Ndlovu (50) who stays in Nkulumane suburb left his home in a huff and went to Tshabalala suburb where his mother-in-law Everist Makuleya (70) and his other in-laws live.
He got there at around 8.45pm and did not even knock at the door, but pushed the door open and stormed in, said an insider.
His mother-in-law was in her bedroom. He allegedly shouted obscenities while demanding his television set which he had lent her when they had a private function.
It is alleged his mother-in-law got out of her bedroom to talk to him about the issue so that they could solve it amicably without any tension.
Ndlovu manhandled his mother-in-law before he slapped her on the face, the source said. He ran amok and picked a chair and allegedly hit her once on the head causing her to tumble to the ground, said a source close to investigations.
Makuleya screamed for help and while she was wriggling on the floor in agony, neighbours thronged her home and rescued her from the furious Ndlovu.
They bundled Ndlovu into a car and drove to a police station where a report was made, a source said.
He appeared for trial before Western Commonage magistrate Ulukile Ndlovu facing a physical abuse charge.
He pleaded not guilty.
He was remanded out of custody to next week on Monday when he would know his fate.- B-Metro
Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum (ZTDF) salutes Artuz for confronting suicidal policies in the education sector!
04 June 2021
The Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum would like to appreciate and laud the courage and determination displayed by the leadership and membership of Amalgamated Rural Teachers’Union of Zimbabwe( Artuz)when they dramatically turned Mbuya Nehanda statue into a protest square demanding a living wage. As an external teachers movement fighting against the abuse of teachers by the regime in Harare, we applaud the vibrant firebrand teachers union for staging a flash protest at the towering Mbuya Nehanda statue in the capital on Wednesday clamouring for better salaries and a conducive working environment.
The Coordinator of the Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum, Robson Ruhanya urges all Zimbabweans in the teaching fraternity in Zimbabwe and across the globe to unite and confront the stubborn Public Service and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Ministers against these unsalted peanuts given to our diligent teachers as remuneration. As an organisation,we are ready to work towards the emancipation of the teaching fraternity. It was quite inspiring to see dozens of picketers waving placards bearing touching demands from “Give us a signal ” to “Save Our Education”. As citizens, we must be ready to pay the ultimate price fighting against slave wages.
The fascinating part of the demonstration was when the Secretary General, Robson ‘Nikita’ Chere directly appealed to the spirit medium : “Mbuya Nehanda we have come with the grievances of the downtrodden teachers”. The appeal unearthed that the business of the liberation struggle remains unaccomplished until educators and learners are exempted from this personal aggrandisement that we witness under the incompetent Zanupf regime. Our message to this insensitive government is that Mbuya Nehanda and other icons of the liberation struggle sacrificed to better our livelihoods as Zimbabweans. They fought so that our children can also enjoy their lives in the country, they did not suffer to impress rapacious Careerist Politicians who are eating on behalf of the starving educators.
Moreover, together with Artuz, ZTDF shall commit itself to the fight for a living wage because our dream is to go back to our country so that we can participate actively in the socio-economic transformation of our country. Our mandate is to ensure that the education sector has been transfigured through restoring them to a living wage. We are quite aware that some students in the countryside are dropping out of school due to lack of resources, a pathetic situation that the organisation says shall try to mobilise resources to aid those victims of gross misgovernance manifesting in senseless looting and corruption. In Southern Africa, there is still free education in South Africa, Namibia etc, learners are supported by the caring and sensitive governments, a dream that will come true in the motherland.
The Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum absolutely condemns the barbaric conduct of the captured law enforcement agents who always want deny labour unions their right to express their disgruntlement peacefully and democratically as stipulated in the national constitution of 2013. This was evidenced when the protesters fled the scene after law officers called for a backup to quell the freedom of expression by the disgruntled teachers who can’t afford to send their children to school, their children cannot manage to have a single nutritious meal per day. It is a public fact that teachers across the breadths and lengths of the country are currently on a go-slow , only going to class two days a week instead of five. We support their legitimate and constitutional demand to be restored to their 2018 October salaries of US$540 or equivalent in local currency.
Furthermore, ZTDF coordinator consulted with other colleagues in different countries in the SADC region pertaining salaries of teachers and these were the submissions; A person working in Teaching /Education in South Africa typically earns a handsome amount of 33 000 Rands per month an equivalent of more than 1800$US. In Namibia , teachers receive 24 000 Rands per month an equivalent of US$1.759.46. In Zambia a person working as an educator earns around 6,370 ZMK per month which is close to US$ 300. And finally in Botswana, teachers earn salaries ranging from 5,970 BWP (lowest average) to 22,700 BWP(highest average) , actual maximum salary is higher.
The above salaries reflect the incompetence and carelessness of the satanic regime in terms of its mandate to pay our teachers handsomely. Teachers in Zimbabwe deserve a living wage that will cater for their families. We encourage teachers to work hand in glove with all progressive educators in Zimbabwe and the diaspora to improve the sorry scenerio that has befallen our own intelligentsia of Zimbabwe.
These two MDC @nelsonchamisa cadres expose the injustices in Zimbabwe, how ZANU PF abuses power through compromised judges. They are free today after 8 years at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison for a crime they did not commit. Politicisation of law. Banana Republic pic.twitter.com/cBvfAo0KV0
— Pedzisai Ruhanya (@PedzisaiRuhanya) June 4, 2021
Tell me now wy is the Judge who convicted them earlier has been promoted to the supreme bench, does he qualify for that ?? Bhunu must be investigated and fired.
Our comrades Tungamirai Madzokere and Last Maengahama have finally been acquitted by the Supreme Court after spending 8 years in jail. These cadres were in prison for a crime they did not commit. The ZANU PF regime is evil and vindictive And this is why #ZANU PF MUST GO!
— Chalton Hwende MP Chairperson Public Accounts (@hwendec) June 4, 2021
Younger brother to a suspected Gutu thief, who was arrested for stealing while clad in a skeleton-like costume and mask committed suicide on Monday.
People around him suspect he feared being arrested in connection with theft cases.
Musiiwa Gondoro, who is a brother to Norman Chagwiza went into hiding after the latter was arrested on May 27.
In fear of being arrested, he took his own life after warning his wife not disclose how he had acquired some of their household goods.
The case was attended by Zimbabwe Republic Police and CID Gutu Mupandawana.
He died on Monday before he was removed from the scene of his death on Tuesday afternoon.
It is reported that they would work in cahoots with his step-brother, breaking into houses of unsuspecting residents and stealing goods.
His wife, Spiwe Dandira said her husband had not been coming home since the arrest of his step-brother.
“He told me not to tell anyone and If am asked about the batteries we have, I had to tell them that he bought them.
“He told me to go home and that he would come and have his food.
“I waited for him at home but he did not show up before I decided to return to his hiding place where I searched for him.
“Unfortunately he was found by his friends while hanging from a tree in the mountain,” she said.
Musiiwa had been staying in the mountain for three days since the arrest of his brother.
“Since the day his step-brother was arrested for house breaking, he has not been stable before he decided to move to the mountain which became his new home.
“When I asked him what was going on he could not give a reasonable answer which led me to be suspicious,” added Dandira.
Musiiwa’s friend identified as Baba Brian said the deceased had been living in fear of arrest.
“From the time his brother was arrested, he knew he was next as the police were trying to recover everything and apprehending the suspects.
“The other Harare house breaking team was arrested and this made him fear to the worst prompting him to kill himself,” he said.
Deputy director Valuation and State Management in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Settlement Joyce Pazvakavambwa, who is facing fresh charges of granting title deeds to land worth nearly US$4 million in northern Harare without the necessary conditions or authority, was yesterday freed on $30 000 bail.
Pazvakavambwa, who is appearing in the same court for allegedly facilitating the sale of a low density residential stand in Harare to a then eight-year-old for US$65 in 2008, jointly appeared with Lazarus Chimba on criminal abuse of office charges.
Chimba was the deputy director, valuation and estate management in the Ministry of Local Government in 2008, when the offence was allegedly committed. He was also released on $30 000 bail.
The duo was not asked to plead to the charges when they appeared before Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje who remanded them to July 6.
Pazvakavambwa was the chief valuations officer in the then Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development responsible for proper administration and validation of deeds of grant and transfer of title deeds in 2008.
The State led by Mr Malvin Mapako alleges that on September 13, 2007, the Ministry entered into a partnership agreement with Sally Mugabe Heights Housing Co-operative for the development of residential stands ranging from 1 000 to 2 000 square metres on Arcorn Farm in northeast Harare.
Datronics (Pvt) Ltd was selected as the developer and required to facilitate title surveys, engineering design plans, road construction, provision of storm water drainage, water and electricity reticulation to standards approved by Harare City Council and Zesa. This when done would have ensured that all stands on the scheme were properly serviced.
The Ministry was mandated to provide land at intrinsic value, facilitate title survey and issue title deeds in the deal.
The State noted that the Ministry set aside 319 residential stands as security to the developer to recover money in the event that some of the eventual buyers failed to pay the full cost of servicing the stands.
These 319 stands were in the custody of the Ministry of Local Government and were to be transferred to Datronics when all was complete.
In early 2008, Datronics wrote to the State Lands Section, asking to be allocated residential stands to use as collateral at NDH Bank when it borrowed money for servicing the land.
Upon receiving the request from Datronics, Mr Happiness Masaraure, an administration clerk at the State Lands Office, sought guidance from Chimba and asked whether he could give Datronics free grants of the stands. According to the State, free grants are only given under special circumstances by the Local Government Minister in liaison with the President.
Chimba allegedly advised Mr Masaraure to follow the same procedure that was used at Carrick Creagh where free grants were issued.
By A Correspondent- A Mpopoma woman regrets dumping her husband whom she had been married to for seven years as he now beats her whenever he meets her.
Teclar Moyo is reportedly fed up with Marvelous Banda who reportedly follows her everywhere she goes to bash her as revenge for breaking up with him.
As a result of Banda’s violent behaviour Moyo decided to seek justice from the courts.
“We had huge challenges in our marriage because he had extra-marital affairs so I broke up with him and decided to move out. The problem I am facing is that he does not want to leave me alone. He follows me wherever I go. He comes to my house and insults me and beats me in front of our child,” said Moyo.
As if that is not enough, Banda destroys Moyo’s property whenever he gets the chance to get into her house.
“When he forces himself into my house he picks some of my property and throws it on the ground. I am therefore applying to this court to assist me by stopping him from assaulting me, insulting me and to stop coming to my place,” said Moyo.
Moyo denied the allegations levelled against him.
However, magistrate Urgent Vundla granted an interim order.
By A Correspondent- A man whose life has hit a rough patch accused his relative of having allegedly murdered an unknown person and cast the spirit of the murdered person upon his life causing him to face difficulties in life and his children to fail at school.
It is believed after Obey Gwetsayi saw his life take a downturn he consulted a prophet who told him that his cousin Kudzai Gwetsayi allegedly killed a person and then cast the spirit upon him causing him to face extreme difficulties in life and his children to fail at school.
After that Obey confronted his cousin at his house in Njube suburb and accused him of having cast the spirit of the person he allegedly murdered upon him. Obey poured out his heart saying that the spirit caused him to lead a poor life. It also caused his children to fail at school.
He also accused Kudzai of having allegedly cast the same spirit upon his mother.
He also made chilling threats at Kudzai while declaring that if he failed to exorcise the spirit he would kill him.
Fearing for his life Kudzai sought legal intervention at Western Commonage court.
“My cousin Obey Gwetsayi troubles me. He usually comes to my house and shouts on top of his voice saying I killed a person after that I cast the spirit upon his life.
And the spirit of the person I killed causes him to struggle in life and lead a very poor life. And it also causes his children to fail at school. He also accuses me of having cast the same spirit upon my mother which he claims causes her to fall sick. He swears at me while declaring that if I fail to reverse the bewitchment, he would axe me to death and he would also murder my children,” he said.
Obey did not attend the court.
The presiding magistrate Jeconia Prince Ncube granted Kudzai an interim peace order which compels Obey not to visit his cousin at Njube and not to verbally abuse him, and not to threaten to kill him.
ByA Correspondent- A man has been jailed for 13 years after his fingerprints were analysed from a photo of a block of cheese.
Carl Stewart shared the M&S Stilton picture — but made the mistake of showing his fingers and palm.
He may have thought he was safe because he was using an EncroChat phone, a highly encrypted device used by criminals.
However, police cracked the system last year leading to the arrest of hundreds of people in the UK suspected of murder, gun smuggling and serious drug trafficking. Sixty-thousand users — about 10 000 of them in the UK — have been identified globally as part of Operation Venetic.
Stewart (39), of Gem Street, Liverpool , received a sentence of 13-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin, MDMA and ketamine, and to transferring criminal property.
Detective Inspector Lee Wilkinson said Stewart had been “caught out by his love of Stilton cheese”.
“His palm and fingerprints were analysed from this picture and it was established they belonged to (him),” the officer said.
Stewart had used the name Toffeeforce to conduct his EncroChat deals.
Mr Wilkinson added: “As part of Operation Venetic, Merseyside Police has so far arrested more than 60 people, many of whom have been charged with serious drug trafficking or firearms offences.
“This year will see a number of these people continuing to appear before the courts, and we welcome each and every one.” — news.sky.com
By A Correspondent- A man from Nketa suburb has been facing a hellish life at the hands of his son who always threatens to stab him to death each time he returns home drunk. Zihlobo Moyo would bring a different girlfriend home during the night and accuse his father Syril Moyo of not having left food for him.
He would then cook in the middle of the night while making noise with his lover, forcing other family members to wake up.
When family members complain, Zihlobo would launch a verbal tirade while accusing them of not having left food for him.
Incensed by that his father would confront him but he would fumble into his pocket and take a knife and sharpen it while threatening to finish him off. He would accuse his father of treating him like an outcast.
His father tried to engage his aunt to talk to him but he could not reform.
Syril had to apply for a peace order against his wayward son.
“My name is Syril Moyo. I am applying for a protection order against my son Zihlobo Moyo. He is in the habit of emotionally abusing me and my children. Whenever he comes from a beer binge he would bring a different girlfriend and would accuse me of not having left food for him. He would insult me and would fumble into his pocket and take out a knife and sharpen it while threatening to stab me to death if I dared to beat him up. I have faced the nasty experience for over a month. May this court grant me a protection order against him,” said Syril.
Zihlobo denied ever emotionally and verbally abusing his father and his siblings.
“I respect my father. I never insulted him and my siblings. I only complained about why they did not leave food for me because I’m the one who buys groceries,” he said.
The presiding magistrate Jeconia Prince Ncube granted Syril a protection order against his son. Zihlobo was ordered not to verbally and emotionally abuse his father and his siblings. He was also ordered to refrain from issuing death threats against his father.
By A Correspondent- A Bulawayo-based car dealer was slapped with a 42-month jail term by a Bulawayo magistrate for brutally striking a police officer with an empty beer bottle on the forehead resulting in him sustaining a deep cut.
Brandon Hingi (25) from Nketa 8 suburb carried out the savage and supposedly alcohol-fuelled attack on Christopher Chindiya (27) on 16 May 2021 at the Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC which was allegedly operating in violation of Covid-19 lockdown rules. In Zimbabwe lockdown laws prohibit nightclubs and bars from operating.
Hingi is, however, going to spend 30 months in jail after 12 months of his sentence were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour by Bulawayo provincial magistrate Tavengwa Sangster who convicted him on his own plea of guilty to a charge of assault.
In coming up with the sentence Sangster took into consideration the fact that the assault from the observation of the doctor had ‘‘very’’ serious after-effects.
“There was a danger to life in that complainant may experience intra-cranial bleeding. There is also a possibility of permanent disability in that the complainant may develop problems of secondary brain concussion such as fits,” observed Sangster.
He adds: “The possibility of bleeding in the head as well as permanent disability must not be taken lightly. A fine or community service will not do justice in this case. This will trivialise the offence and therefore, encourage would-be offenders. Only imprisonment is suitable for such attacks on another.”
The court proved that on 16 May 2021 and at around midnight, the complainant was at Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC in the company of his friend. As they were going out of the club, the complainant’s friend lost his phone. He then accused Hingi of having taken it and that caused a misunderstanding between the two.
Chindiya then approached the accused who was arguing with his friend over the stolen cellphone. The accused then hit the complainant once on the forehead with an empty beer bottle.
Complainant sustained a cut on the forehead and was referred to hospital for medication. The matter was reported to the police leading to Hingi’s arrest.
In mitigation, Hingi pleaded for leniency saying his girlfriend was expecting and that when he committed the offence, he was angry that the complainant’s friend had falsely accused him of stealing his cellphone.
– 5 LOVERS, 2 PREGNANCIES TO 2 DIFFERENT MEN, ALL IN ONE YEAR.
– WHISKED OUT OF ZIMBABWE.
By A Correspondent | INVESTIGATIVE | The below is a trail of event twists as a serial multiple-men lover fled Zimbabwe in April. It also narrates how high profile ministers got caught between two scandals, one on the sale of stands, and one of trappings using the self proclaimed anti-terrorism expert, Susan Mutami.
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It was all triggered when earlier in the year, the Special Anti Corruption Unit head, Thabani Mpofu was close to arresting Local Govt Minister, July Moyo over the alleged sale of stands in Harare, Kwekwe and Gweru for his own benefit.
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There were several beneficiaries listed on this reported scandal who are in the ministry of Justice; so to hide this, a quick plan was hatched to get Mpofu fired.
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Mpofu, who leads the controversial taskforce, was swiftly accused of authoring letters for MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti advising the opposition icon on ways if navigating through the justice system.
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Close sources allege that, when this was about to happen, the Norton MP Temba Mliswa went over to president, Emmerson Mnangagwa to advise him to ignore the calls to fire Mpofu, doing this in order to settle scores with the enemy of an enemy (Mliswa had heard that Thabani Mpofu had been set up by July Moyo, Owen Ncube, and Virginia Mabhiza). Mliswa has had several bones to chew with Thabani Mpofu. Mliswa reasoned with Mnangagwa saying: how could Thabani Mpofu author letters for MDC Deputy President Tendai Biti in this age and time when he could simply pick a phone call.
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Parallel to all this, Temba Mliswa was the subject of an ongoing probe in which he was entangled with an ex girlfriend, Susan Mutami.
Pics: in bedroom with Minister Kambamura, and then with businessman Musanhi.
Facts became clear mid February that, Susan Mutami, the centre of the axis, was used to incriminate Mliswa.
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Mutami is an enigma. She claims she bedded the late SB Moyo, Killer Zivhu, Temba Mliswa. She is even openly announces saying she has bedded the President Emmerson Mnangagwa. She further confirmed her claims on the alleged affair with the President, to ZimEye a few hours after being blocked from flying out of Zimbabwe in February 2020.
She says she has Mliswa’s twins, while at the same time naming her son after his arch enemy, Owen Ncube.
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5 LOVERS, 2 PREGNANCIES TO 2 DIFFERENT MEN, ALL IN ONE YEAR
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Last year alone she dated at least four different men who include the Foreign Affairs Minister SB Moyo, one after the other:
Susan Mutami’s latest profile picture – source: Susan Mutami, Twitter.com
Polite Kambamura, the Mining Deputy Minister (they were engaged). Walter Chikwana, Secretary for the Judicial Commission (they had a civil partnership in 2020), and ZANU PF MP, Hon Kenneth Musanhi (see pictures).
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Furthermore, an affidavit seen by ZimEye states in addition that she was already pregnant way before bedding Mliswa last year.
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Affidavit
The affidavit, certified by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), shows that as at around March 2020, she was still engaged to another man, who works inside the JSC, Mr Walter Chikwana.
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The man was reached for a comment but wouldn’t speak or respond to questions.
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Meanwhile, the affidavit states that Mutami was carrying a pregnancy to another man at the end of March 2020. In the affidavit, her boyfriend, Mr Chikwana says:
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‘ I am Susan Vivian Mutami’s partner and in case of emergency I can be contacted on the above mentioned address or on my mobile number, +263772***********”
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He then goes on to say he is the legal guardian of SB Moyo’s Child (full name redacted-in accordance with the Children’s Act on the paper).
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” I am also the legal guardian of (name withheld), and our unborn child as of date. Attached hereto is a copy of my identification.”
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The affidavit was signed on the 24th March 2020.
The development puts burden on Mutami to explain the timing drama surrounding her two pregnancies (to different men) which are within months of each other.
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She also says that she is the holder of two Australian degrees of which she has none, and also makes false claims that she is the winner of Australia’s CEO awards. During interviews with Mutami, ZimEye reveals how that her claims to university courses are baseless.
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VIDEO LOADING BELOW
Asked to state which universities issued her 2 degrees, Susan Mutami says: the @AusEmbZim performed all verification checks. She says: "There is no way a whole embassy would just leave and accompany me to go and donate, and hand out donations without doing proper checks on me…" pic.twitter.com/deBmXUv4St
She is also put to task on her CEO Awards claim, and it is revealed that she was only a passerby at the function who posed in front of a camera holding someone else’s award. (SEE RGM INTERVIEW BELOW).
Susan Mutami Says Australian Embassy Verified Her 2 Fake Degrees | IS SHE TELLING THE TRUTH?
Her ex lover, Mliswa has maintained his allegations that he was set up by the Central Intelligence Organisation in order to incriminate him using Susan Mutami.
After all this she is lawfully stopped while trying to leave the country, and then she is put under the custody of the Central Intelligence Organisation. Mutami is held for possessing details on the attempted assassination of the president and killing of three aides at the White City Stadium, then she is whisked out by two powerful ministers who have close links to the president, July Moyo (local governments), Owen Mudha Ncube, minister of state security. After being whisked out without knowledge of the mother body of the CIO, she then starts to attack to the Director General of the CIO, who she claims she once dated, then threatening to release secret information on the cabinet, Politburo and a number of other official secrets, while on the same tweet, absolving the two ministers, July Moyo and Owen Mudha Ncube.
At this time, July Moyo is under investigations for parceling out land, a case being probed by Thabani Mpofu’s SACU organisation.
July Moyo is very close to permanent Secretary Mrs Virginia Mabhiza and Kumbirai Hodzi, the prosecutor General. At the same time, Thabani Mpofu’s SACU is having clashes with the Prosecutor General. There was a collusion between the Prosecutor Gen and July Moyo to get Thabani Mpofu fired. The PG and July Moyo then approached the president Emmerson Mnangagwa to pass allegations that Thabani Mpofu has advised Biti.
The event trail is as follows:
Thabani Mpofu is accused of writing WhatsApp letters to MDC Alliance MP Tendai Biti giving him advice on how to return to parliament, and this makes the president very angry. At this time, Mnangagwa has also been told by Perm Sec Virginia Mabhiza, and Prosecutor Gen Kumbirai Hodzi, to ignore the request to arrest Minister July Moyo on land fraud.
Mnangagwa then summons Thabani Mpofu to State House where he is dressed down. It is reported that Mpofu has been fired. ZimEye contacts Mpofu who tells this news network, it’s not true at all. Are you my employer?, Mpofu fires a question while answering to the report.
Soon afterwards, Temba Mliswa who is naturally against Mpofu, comes to the rescue of Mpofu to tell the President that Mpofu has been set up. Thabani Mpofu also gets support of the CIO DG Isaac Moyo. This angers July Moyo who together with Owen Ncube sponsor Susan Mutami to tweet ‘some dirt’ on Isaac Moyo while absolving July Moyo and Owen Ncube publicly, on the Twitter website.
State security sources report saying Mutami was whisked out of Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Border post. ZimEye requests paperwork to confirm that the escape was truly through that border post. No date is provided, but by end of April 2021, she is now safely in Australia.
Both Owen Ncube and July Moyo are contacted for a comment, and their phones are put down soon after hearing the interview questions.
Responding to the state security reports, Mliswa denies ever approaching Mnangagwa to assist Mpofu. He tells ZimEye: “Mpofu, Matanga, Mudha, July Moto, and Ziyambi Ziyambi are all one and the same, working hand-in-hand.”
It surfaces that Mutami is an agent of July Moyo and his team to settle their matters with Director General, Isaac Moyo. Thabani Mpofu then suddenly comes out the victim of the two warning camps.
The development has raised questions on how safe Zimbabweans are when ministers and two officials are using a woman to settle their personal scores. Is Zimbabwe is being run by people controlled by bottom power, or is it that Susan Mutami has some ability to capture all these people, or she is so dazzling to control the nation’s top government officials?
HEALTH care assistant Chelsea Manongwa has been named as Maghull’s representative in a prestigious beauty pageant competition.
Chelsea has recently been crowned Miss Maghull Galaxy 2021.
The 20-year-old, who attended Deyes High School and now works for Bliss Recruitment, will be appearing at the national finals on November 28 at Park Hall hotel in Lancashire.
If Chelsea wins, she will be crowned Miss Galaxy UK and will be able to complete in the International Galaxy Pageant abroad in summer 2022.
The Zimbabwe Devolution Campaign, a consortium of CSOs and Residents Associations calls on for the amendment and alignment of the Electoral Act 2:13 with Chapter 14 of the Constitution on devolution to allow citizens to participate in the recall of elected officials.
The continued absence of the citizen voice in the removal of elected officials renders citizens powerless and has serious implications on accountability. Once elected into office, elected officials must be accountable to citizens not to political parties.
The abuse of power and provisions of Section 129 (k) of the Constitution that decimated elected leadership and crippled representative democracy in Urban local authorities is a great lesson that politicians cannot be entrusted with powers that are unchecked by the citizens.
We call upon the Parliament and the President of Zimbabwe to consider inclusion of new provisions in the Electoral Act 2:13 that will operationalize Section 129 (k) of the Constitution and provide for procedures for recall of non-performing Councilors, Members of Parliament and Senators.
Any form of recall of elected leadership without citizen participation kills local democracy and has no place in a democratic society.
Citizens must have a voice and endorsement on the removal of elected officials. Section 71 of the Devolution and Decentralization Policy recognizes the need for the empowerment of communities to have the capacity to demand quality services from elected Councilors, including legal recall powers.
CHRA recommends that least 75% of citizens in a Ward or Constituency must endorse or validate the recall or removal of elected leadership.
The bestowal of powers to recall elected officials on citizens strengthens accountability throughout the whole electoral cycle on elected leadership and is a catalyst towards improved service delivery.
We assert that our plea and request is in line with the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Devolution and Decentralization Policy (2020).
The amendment and alignment of the Electoral Act 2:13 to allow citizen participation in the recall of elected officials is key in the implementation of devolution provided in Chapter 14 of the Constitution.
Rwandan journalist Ntamuhanga Cassien has reportedly gone missing in Mozambique after allegedly being abducted by eight people claiming to be Mozambican police officers accompanied by a man who was supposedly a Rwandan official.
Cassien was allegedly kidnapped on 23 May 2021 on the island of Inhaca on the Bay of Maputo. Rwandan refugees in Mozambique have petitioned the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the disappearance of the missing journalist.
Cassien is said to have escaped from prison in Rwanda in 2017, two years after being sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment for various crimes.
Prior to that, Cassien worked as a journalist and director of Christian radio, Amazing Grace, in Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali. He was now working as a trader in Mozambique.
His arrest, at the time, was seen as persecution of political opponents by the Rwandan government. Following his escape, the journalist moved to Mozambique, where he lived as a refugee.
Concerns have been raised that Cassien’s disappearance came after a meeting between the Mozambican President Felipe Nyusi and Paul Kagame, the Rwandan President.
Speculation is rife that the meeting might have encouraged the Mozambican government to extradite Rwandan refugees in exchange for Rwanda’s support in fighting terrorism in Cabo Delgado province.
The Association of Rwandan Refugees in Mozambique has since lodged a complaint with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in Maputo, over Cassien’s disappearance.
Opposition MDC Alliance has claimed that it is confident of electoral victory in 2023, and that it has made inroads in the rural areas that are traditionally considered as Zanu-PF strongholds.
In a communiqué, the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party said it had managed to attract the rural populace through the party’s Zimbabwe agenda 2021 which is targeting six million voters for the 2023 elections.
“The national executive council (NEC) noted the significant progress that has been made so far in implementing agenda 2021. The agenda has gathered momentum throughout all provinces in Zimbabwe. The enthusiasm both in rural and urban dwellers on the need for convergence is encouraging. Citizens are mobilising to win Zimbabwe for change,” read a communiqué issued by the party after its NEC meeting.
“The people’s party is on the move. It’s getting stronger by the day. There is a stampede among ordinary people to buy party cards and become party members. The party is accelerating its membership drive in recruiting and mobilising for victory. The six million registered voter target is getting close to being achieved.”
But Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo described the claims by the MDC Alliance as “wishful thinking”.
“That’s wishful thinking and all I can say is that it’s wishful thought. As for the election as a party we want free and peaceful elections and we wish them to do the same. As for penetrating our stronghold, that’s wishful thinking. We wish them good luck in the elections. However, they should not stay too long in their wishful thinking. If wishes were horses, beggars would certainly ride,” Khaya Moyo told NewsDay.
On electoral reforms, the MDC Alliance said these should be agreed by all stakeholders with clear issues put on the table to the satisfaction of all concerned political parties.
“We reiterate the urgent need to institute and implement genuine electoral reforms; this involves implementing the recommendations by election observer missions. We call for professional and transparent delimitation and census processes as well as sincere voter registration drive before the delimitation process.”
They said Zimbabweans living in the diaspora should be allowed to vote in line with section 67 of the Constitution, adding that electoral violence should end, contesting parties should be accorded access to State media.
“Zimbabwe is suffering from a twin pandemic of COVID-19 and authoritarian consolidation. The regime is on a warpath against its citizens and is in pre-election panic mode. The brazen attack on our constitutional order through the weaponisation of the law, questionable Constitutional amendments and the attempt to create a one-party State must be challenged,” the party said.
In an interview, MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said: “Our people’s agenda is resonating strongly with multitudes of citizens on the ground who are already converging to win Zimbabwe for change. The team’s ability to champion the cause of the people and demonstrate that we are the only viable alternative to Zanu-PF has netted great success.”
By A Correspondent| Former MDC Alliance senator Lilian Timveos has been appointed to the Petrotrade board in what clearly exposes the new dispensation’s politics of patronage.
Timveos hails from Zvishavane, Midlands which is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hometown and province.
The Petrotrade board is chaired by lawyer and Zanu PF apologist Tino Chinyoka who is from Gweru, Midlands province again.
By A Correspondent| Harare Magistrate Barbara Mateko on Wednesday 2 June 2021 exonerated three acquaintances of Zengeza West constituency legislator Job Sikhala by quashing charges of breaching national lockdown regulations pressed against them last year.
The three namely Terrence Manjengwa, Blessed Changara and Barnabas Gura, who all reside in Harare were arrested on 3 September 2020 outside Harare Magistrates Court while following proceedings for Sikhala, who had been arrested and detained on charges of inciting public violence by urging people to participate during the 31 July 2020 protests.
The trio was charged with unnecessary movement during the national lockdown as defined in section 4(1)(a) of the Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order Statutory Instrument 77/2020.
Prosecutors claimed that Manjengwa aged 26 years, Gura aged 32 years and Changara aged 22 years unlawfully and unnecessarily moved from their places of residence during the national lockdown imposed by government in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus by gathering at Harare Magistrates Court without exemption letters.
But on Wednesday 2 June 2021, Magistrate Mateko upheld the trio’s application for exception and quashed the charge of violating national lockdown regulations.
Magistrate Mateko’s decision came after Manjengwa, Gura and Changara’s lawyer Kossam Ncube of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had objected to the charge of unnecessary movement during the national lockdown on the basis that it does not exist at law under the cited section.
Ncube had also argued that proceeding to trial with the charges as framed would amount to a violation of section 70(1)(b) of the Constitution as it abrogates the right to a fair trial and hence the trio must not plead to a nullity.
While Manjengwa, Gura and Changara have been set free on charges of contravening national lockdown regulations, their application excepting to charges of possession of offensive weapons at a public gathering as defined in section 43(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act was dismissed by Magistrate Mateko, who ordered the State to amend the charge of possession of weapons as prosecutors had cited a wrong section.
In their application for exception, Manjengwa, Gura and Changara had argued that the purported offence cited in the State papers is not established under the particular sub-section cited by prosecutors, hence no cause of action arises.
The trio had also argued that the failure by the State to cite the correct provision is so glaring that it cannot be condoned or be said to be inconsequential and to seek to commence a prosecution on non-existent charges is a grave anomaly and irregularity which will unduly prejudice and embarrass the accused persons.
Manjengwa, Gura and Changara return to court on 25 June 2021, where their trial on charges of possession of offensive weapons is scheduled to commence.
By A Correspondent| The Supreme Court has acquitted the opposition MDC members Tungamirai Madzokere and Last Maengahama after spending eight years in jail.
Maengahama and Madzokere were part of the seven opposition members arrested for the murder of a police officer Inspector Mutedza in Glen View.
The other arrested members include Yvonne Musarurwa and the late Rebecca Mafikeni.
Musarurwa was released earlier following a presidential pardon.
By A Correspondent- The infamous MaShurugwi machete gangs have reportedly resurfaced in Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, where they recently attacked and injured four villagers.
The return of violence prompted Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro and Chief Bepura to summon village heads on Wednesday in a bid to safeguard villagers’ lives.
During the meeting, village heads told the lawmaker and the chief that they were living in fear of the machete gangs.
“These gangs are also pouncing on our young daughters and are spreading sexually transmitted infections. As the MP and chief, may you please act because our area has become one of the dangerous places to live in,” said a villager. Chief Bepura blamed the police for failing to contain the situation.
“The biggest problem in this area is our police. They have become so corrupt to the effect that they cannot even enforce the law as they are mandated to.
“I have engaged them several times, but no action is being taken and yet these gangs are known and it should not take them time to arrest them. They prioritise money more than their job and my people are now at risk,” he said.
Chief Bepura said a local villager named Mbela, who has a gold mining claim in the area was working with the gangs and had provided accommodation to the criminals.
Little did I know that we have accommodated criminals who were on a mission to destroy my area,” he added.
The village heads called on the Mines ministry to temporarily close Mbela’s claim and ensure that the gangs are driven away from the village.
The MP said machete gangs were dangerous as they were armed.
“I have heard all your concerns, the Ministry of Mines is aware of this meeting. I will engage them and the police,” he said.
Zanu-PF youth member Paul Rwodzi said the machete gangs were impregnating minors in the area.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he could not comment as he was in a meeting.
By A Correspondent- A child care centre in the Midlands province Thursday recorded 27 coronavirus cases that were part of the 61 new infections reported by the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
Authorities, however, did not reveal the name of the child care centre that recorded the coronavirus cases.
Out of the 47 PCR tests for coronavirus that were conducted in the Midlands Province, 27 returned positive and were at the child care centre in question.
The Midlands Province now 2 546 cumulative coronavirus cases inclusive of yesterday’s cases.
Harare and Bulawayo still lead the race with 13 236 and 5 46 cumulative cases respectively.
As of the 3rd of June 2021, Zimbabwe had recorded a total of 39 092 cumulative cases, 36680 recoveries, 807 active cases and 1604 deaths.
The Ministry also reported that on Thursday, 71 cases were hospitalised 16 of which were asymptomatic, 49 were mild to moderate, 3 were severe and the remaining 3 were in intensive care units (ICU).
President Emmerson Mnangagwa greets supporters of his ruling ZANU PF party gather for an election rally in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, July 17, 2018. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo – RC1A80283490
By Nomusa Garikai- “It is therefore difficult to be in ED’s shoes this time of Zimbabwe. Every gesture he takes is compared to the former (Robert Mugabe).
So his first year in office has been a year of serious comparisons. Nothing he did or not do would not be compared to the former. Without respecting the political correctness ED is not an orator as Mugabe was, but ED is a doer and he means his words. His actions speaks eloquently than the spoken words. In that comparison mood I should say I was very lucky to have met the two presidents one on one. In that respect my comments on both based on my personal interactions with both,” wrote Dr Masimba Mavaza.
“The three years in office were in any language on earth a successful and eventful years. It has put the nation on a progressive path.”
The article had a misleading title “Mnangagwa’s Secrets to win In 2023 Revealed” when all that followed was the usual diatribe of lies and more lies. Zimbabwe has been in economic decline ever since the country’s independence in 1980. The November 2017 military coup has not brought any change because it was a none-event.
The coup resulted in the musical change of the leaders but the Zanu PF dictatorship itself remained untouched. Zimbabwe a pariah state before the coup and that did not change. And as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state there will be no meaningful economic recovery. Dr Mavaza’s “progressive path” is a lie.
Mnangagwa is not going to win the 2023 elections because he has brought about any meaningful economic recovery; the economy is in a worse state than ever. He is gearing to rig the 2023 elections but that is hardly a secret given Zanu PF has always rigged elections.
One of the tragic stories to emerge from the slave trade is that it was not the white man who hunted down the blacks and sold them as slaves to the slave traders. It was black Africans who hunted their own fellow blacks and sold them into slavery for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico cloth! It is this cold indifference to the suffering of other living things, humans and, closer still, one’s own kith and kin that made black Africans vulnerable to divide and rule and exploitation.
Before the whites set foot on African soil, the natives were fighting each other; then came the slave trade; after it came colonial oppression and exploitation and now, we have black on black oppression! Mnangagwa is selling the nation’s diamonds, gold and other resources for a song, fistful of beads and a piece of calico cloth, to the Chinese, Russians and other foreigners whilst millions of our people are forced to live in heart breaking abject poverty. All he cares about is that he and his Zanu PF cronies must remain in power no matter what.
“Ed managed to hold free and fair (July 2018) elections. It was the first of its kind where people chose and campaigned for the parties they wanted without fear. This means the nation must give him another chance in 2023 to finish what he has started,” argued Dr Mavaza.
How can 2018 elections have been free and fair when 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote? Mnangagwa reported won the presidency with 2.4 million votes, or 50.8% of the cast votes.
In September 2018 Mnangagwa promised the Zimbabweans in the diaspora will vote in the 2023 elections and yet has done nothing to make this possible. The Zanu PF regime has amended over 30 sections of the new constitution for the sole purpose of consolidating the State President’s dictatorial powers but has failed to extend the postal vote to 3 millions in the diaspora.
By blatantly denying 3 million in the diaspora the vote out of the potential 8 million voters, 38%, Zanu PF has once again shown its contempt for the rule of law and commitment to holding free, fair and credible elections.
The only reason the MDC A and the rest in the opposition camp continue to participate in these flawed and illegal elections is greed. Zanu PF is offering a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate to give the flawed process some modicum of credibility and, extension, give the vote rigging Zanu PF regime legitimacy.
People like Dr Mavaza are making a good living out of singing the praises of the corrupt and tyrannical regimes like Zanu PF. Whilst he pretends to see nothing wrong with Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and political turmoil; he could not bear the hardships himself and now lives in the UK. What a hypocrite! If Zimbabwe was such a peaceful and prosperous nation, then why did you leave Zimbabwe.
Both Mugabe and Mnangagwa have never had any problems recruiting Zimbabwean intellectuals to prop up the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. Dr Mavaza is a University Graduate, in Law no less, and yet has no clue what constitute free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2018 elections and yet he has repeatedly claimed the elections were free, fair and credible.
Whilst the blacks Africans did not have the weapons to sink the slave ships; they nonetheless had the weapons to hunt down and punish all the blacks who hunted down other blacks and sold them as slaves. As a people, black Africans failed to stamp out the heartless indifference of the blacks who sold their own fellow blacks for a fist full of beads and a piece of calico clothe and that heartlessness has survived and passed from one generation to the next to this day.
Mnangagwa and his shameless acolytes and apologists like Dr Mavaza are our modern day black Africans hunting down fellow blacks and selling them to the slave traders for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico clothe. Whatever we do, we must hold Mnangagwa, Mavaza, etc. to account for all the suffering, death and distraction of the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. Whatever we do, we must stamp out once the notion one can sell their own mother for a price, boast they had a mother to sell and get away with it!
“Please 2023 your vote must be for progress. 2023 ED must be given his second term and make Zimbabwe again. So, if you cannot vote for ED 2023 then you have no reason to vote!” pleaded Dr Mavaza.
With not even one democratic reform implemented since the last elections, it is clear Zanu PF will rig the 2023 elections. Indeed, by once again denying Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, 38% of the voters, it is clear the rigging has already started in earnest. After 41 years and counting of Zanu PF rigging elections and getting away with it; we must put an end to this.
We cannot stop Zanu PF rigging the 2023 elections but what we can do is make sure the process is exposed for what it is – a flawed and illegal process. Zanu PF cannot get legitimacy from a discredited process regardless of the discredited opposition’s continued participation.
“Mnangagwa’s secrets to win in 2023!” He is once again rigging the elections. What is new is that he not going to get away with it, not this time! No stone will be left unturned to make sure Mnangagwa does not get away with yet another rigged election and those who have helped him must be held to account.
By A Correspondent- Zengeza West constituency legislator Job Sikhala’s three colleagues were Wednesday exonerated of violating lockdown regulations when they appeared before Harare Magistrate Barbara Mateko.
The magistrate quashed charges of breaching national lockdown regulations pressed against them last year.
Said the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
The three namely Terrence Manjengwa, Blessed Changara and Barnabas Gura, who all reside in Harare were arrested on 3 September 2020 outside Harare Magistrates Court while following proceedings for Hon. Sikhala, who had been arrested and detained on charges of inciting public violence by urging people to participate during the 31 July 2020 protests.
The trio was charged with unnecessary movement during the national lockdown as defined in section 4(1)(a) of the Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order Statutory Instrument 77/2020.Prosecutors claimed that Manjengwa aged 26 years, Gura aged 32 years and Changara aged 22 years unlawfully and unnecessarily moved from their places of residence during the national lockdown imposed by government in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus by gathering at Harare Magistrates Court without exemption letters.
But on Wednesday 2 June 2021, Magistrate Mateko upheld the trio’s application for exception and quashed the charge of violating national lockdown regulations.Magistrate Mateko’s decision came after Manjengwa, Gura and Changara’s lawyer Kossam Ncube of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had objected to the charge of unnecessary movement during the national lockdown on the basis that it does not exist at law under the cited section.
Ncube had also argued that proceeding to trial with the charges as framed would amount to a violation of section 70(1)(b) of the Constitution as it abrogates the right to a fair trial and hence the trio must not plead to a nullity.While Manjengwa, Gura and Changara have been set free on charges of contravening national lockdown regulations, their application excepting to charges of possession of offensive weapons at a public gathering as defined in section 43(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act was dismissed by Magistrate Mateko, who ordered the State to amend the charge of possession of weapons as prosecutors had cited a wrong section.
In their application for exception, Manjengwa, Gura and Changara had argued that the purported offence cited in the State papers is not established under the particular sub-section cited by prosecutors, hence no cause of action arises.
The trio had also argued that the failure by the State to cite the correct provision is so glaring that it cannot be condoned or be said to be inconsequential and to seek to commence a prosecution on non-existent charges is a grave anomaly and irregularity which will unduly prejudice and embarrass the accused persons.
Manjengwa, Gura and Changara return to court on 25 June 2021, where their trial on charges of possession of offensive weapons is scheduled to commence.
By A Correspondent- The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) has officially split after the faction led by Reverend Cossam Chiangwa refused to accept a court ruling on the church leadership crisis case and renamed their group AFM of Zimbabwe.
The church’s leadership wrangle had lingered for years following an attempt by another faction led by immediate former president Reverend Aspher Madziyire and his successor Reverend Amon Madawo to amend the Constitution.
Chiangwa’s side rejected the amendments resulting in squabbles that saw some physically fighting in church premises.
In an endeavour to resolve the crisis, Madawo’s side approached the High Court where they were declared the legitimate leaders of the church.
Chiangwa’s side appealed the judgment at the Supreme Court which upheld the High Court ruling much to the chagrin of the former AFM vice president.
Among other things, the Supreme Court ordered the Chiangwa-led group to surrender all church assets.
In response to the ruling, Chiangwa, through his secretary-general Nathan Nhira, showed defiance but hinted about forming a new organisation.
He said:
_Do not panic, as usual, your leadership is in full control, do not move out of church buildings, nor surrender any assets prematurely._
_It is however prudent and encouraged that those in church buildings and mission house should urgently start looking for alternative places of worship and accommodation._
_We are not abandoning the ship, stay put, we moving on, do not be shaken, we on the move, united we stand as we gladly move forward._
_We are re-constituting ourselves. We still part of AFM International and hence we can still use the logo again until AFM International excludes us from its affiliate membership, then we will design an appropriate logo and move on to establish our own International forum._
AFM of Zimbabwe logo is slightly different from that of AFM in Zimbabwe.
Observable differences include the direction of the cross, background colour and the replacement of “in” with “of” in the name. Some argue that this might have legal consequences.
By A Correspondent- Lilian Timveous, former top MDC-Alliance officials who recently sold out and joined Zanu PF has been absorbed into the Petrotrade board.
Petrol Trade is a government parastatal that falls under, Energy and Power Development Ministery led by Zanu PF’s Zhemu Soda.
Other Petrol Trade board members appointed together with Timveous are Advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka who is the board Chairperson deputised by Mrs Zanele Dube, Mrs Gladys Mumhure, Mr Simbabrashe Eric Mhuriro, Mrs Ferida Matambo, Ms Getrude Marabada, Mr Godfrey Ncube and Mr Dakarai Mukuku.
By A Correspondent- The Emmerson Mnangagwa government has said that it wants to exhume bodies of 157 Zimbabwean Cyclone Idai victims who were buried in Mozambique in 2019 while ignoring to assist thousands who were left homeless by the natural disaster.
The daydreaming Mnangagwa administration said DNA tests will be undertaken to positively identify the exhumed bodies with known graves in Mozambique.
Mnangagwa’s ally, who is the Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo, announced this development to the state media.
“As you may be aware, the immediate impact of Cyclone Idai was the loss of 347 lives with 344 people still missing who are now deemed dead. “The names of the 203 of the 344 missing people are now known from information provided by villagers where they lived. Modalities by Government pathologists to exhume and repatriate bodies of the 157 who were buried in Mozambique remains a priority,” he said.
By A Correspondent- Anti-Riot Police in Mutare on Tuesday intercepted and arrested several Zanu PF supporters who had staged a demonstration and forcibly opened two flea markets that were shut down by the local authority last year as a safety measure against Covid-19.
The Zanu PF activists, who likely face charges of breaching coronavirus regulations, on Tuesday broke into Chidzere and Sakubva markets and parcelled out 3,000 vending stalls amongst themselves.
Riot police intercepted their procession and made arrests as the boisterous protestors marched towards the city centre, singing and waving placards, local city press reported.
Mutare town clerk Anthony Mutara said of the arrests: “Order is very important in any society for the survival of us all,” according to the ManicaPost newspaper.
By A Correspondent- Prices of commodities in some shops recently went up following the announcement of Statutory 127 of 2021 which introduced measures that regulate the foreign currency exchange rate.
SI 127 of 2021 introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, through the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Financial Laws Amendment) Regulations, forced businesses to use the US$1: ZWL$84 exchange rate.
The Statutory Instrument also made it illegal to give customers a discount for paying for goods or services in foreign currency, refuse to take local currency payments at the official exchange rate and issue Zimbabwe dollar receipts for goods paid for in foreign currency. Industry flatly rejected the SI and has openly opposed the move.
Meanwhile, prices of some commodities have started going up following the introduction of the S1.
By A Correspondent- Two patients an escort nurse and an Ambulance driver on Wednesday died after the ambulance they were travelling in collided with a two-tonne truck that was travelling to Kariba at the 196-kilometre-peg along Harare-Chirundu highway near Buffalo Downs.
The driver was identified as Laurence Lundu (39) while the escort nurse was identified as Marjury Matutu (age not given).
The patients, identified as Patricia Murisa was an 18-year-old pregnant woman and the other Tichaona Matashu (47) a victim of a previous road traffic accident, had both been transferred to Chinhoyi Hospital for further treatment.
Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident saying the ambulance encroached onto the lane of the oncoming truck which tried to avoid a head-on collision by moving to the right but was hit by the ambulance.
All four died on the spot while the driver of the truck, Ryan Murembe of Harare ran away from the scene, and his two passengers who sustained injuries were taken to Karoi hospital for treatment.
A MAN from Cowdray Park suburb had to seek a peace order against his neighbour who has been in the habit of assaulting him in front of his children and also threatening to kill him over an undisclosed misunderstanding.
The two neighbours — Shadreck Ndebele and Blessing Mathe have an undisclosed long-standing misunderstanding that dates back to 2016.
Mathe always picks an argument with Ndebele that culminates in him turning Ndebele into a punching bag. He would also insult his neighbour.
Recently Mathe caused a scene as he hurled profanities at his neighbour at the shops before he punched him all over the body. Mathe went on to swear at Ndebele and threatened to kill him.
On the same day in the evening he confronted the hapless Ndebele at his home and accused him of disrespecting him. At the height of the accusations the daring Mathe picked an empty beer bottle and hit him on the head.
Ndebele opened an assault case at Luveve Police Station which was recorded under case number CR 103/5/21.
Mathe is also in the habit of launching verbal attacks at Ndebele’s children while threatening to kill them.
Ndebele was left with no option but to apply for a protection order against his troublesome neighbour.
“I am applying for a protection order against Blessing Mathe who is my neighbour. He is verbally abusing me by insulting me over a misunderstanding that we had back in 2016. Each time an argument arises between the two of us he would hit me with fists and booted feet. He has been threatening to kill me by setting my house on fire. He also beat me near the shops. Last week on Tuesday he came to my home and made baseless accusations against me. He struck me with an empty beer bottle on the head. I bled profusely. I was lucky to survive because a neighbour intervened and rushed me to Mpilo Central Hospital for treatment.
I reported the matter at Luveve Police Station. He is also in the habit of hurling profanities at my family,” he said.
The two neighbours were supposed to attend the court case last week on Thursday but they did not attend as a result the presiding magistrate Jeconia Prince Ncube struck the matter off the court roll.- B-Metro
A man from Zezani area in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South Province is in a tricky situation that any married man would never want to experience after his wife eloped with an Agritex officer who allegedly lured her with his “Government-issued” motorbike.
Debson Siziba was left heartbroken after his wife of about eight years Mbuyedzedzo Muleya left him with their two children while eloping to her lover Knowledge Gororo, an Agritex officer stationed in the area.
It was gathered that Mbuyedzedzo ditched her husband for Gororo after he “seduced” her with rides on his motorbike.
Narrating his unpleasant experience to B-Metro, a distraught Siziba said sometime in April this year, he discovered that Gororo was having an affair with his wife and was always giving her rides to Beitbridge Town on his motorbike.
He said that led his wife to fall in love with his (Gororo’s) motorcycle.
“They were always phoning each other and during my absence, Gororo would come to my house with his motorbike to see my wife until the day she left home under the pretext that she was visiting her aunt.
“When she didn’t come back the following day, I went to the aunt’s house where I was told that she had lied that she was visiting her. Investigations later established that she had eloped with Gororo and he came with his motorbike and took her away,” said a visibly stressed Siziba.
Siziba who was disturbed by the incident later followed his wife to Gororo’s place. He claimed that when he arrived, his wife locked herself in Gororo’s bedroom.
He got so angry and called the police to come and help him “recover” his wife who was now enjoying the biker’s love.
“Upon arrival, Gororo was not at home but his neighbours told me that my wife was inside the house. To avoid putting the law into my own hands, I called the police who came and demanded that she should open the door for them. She, however, refused, leading to one of the police officers to enter through the window to force her out of the house,” said Siziba.
He said when he asked her to accompany him to their house, Mbuyedzedzo refused before Gororo swiftly came and took her with his motorbike to her parents in Beitbridge.
Siziba said Gororo should be punished as he was allegedly addicted to the thrill of sleeping with married women.
“I want him to compensate me for sleeping with my wife and the matter is now before Chief Sitaudze,” he fumed.
B-Metro spoke to Gororo who, while admitting that Mbuyedzedzo once stayed at his house, denied that they were in an intimate relationship.
“It’s not true that we are in a relationship and the issue is now before Chief Sitaudze. The Chief once ordered me to pay two beasts after Siziba claimed I was bedding his wife.
“We were supposed to go back again on Sunday last week but I didn’t make it because I was involved in an accident on Thursday. What happened is that they had a dispute and after that she met my friend who was using my motorbike and he assisted her,” said Gororo.
Asked on what Mbuyedzedzo was doing at his house when the police came to take her, Gororo said: “She came to my house and stayed for two days saying she had nowhere to go. During that time, she told me that she was no longer interested in her husband because he abused her.”
He added: “It is also not true that Siziba was the one who called the police. I am the one who did so after I came back home from work and found him and other villagers at my house. This was after his wife was seen by neighbours who later alerted him and he quickly came when she was about to leave my house.”
Mbuyedzedzo could not be reached for comment.-B-Metro
This advice was at play when a Bulawayo-based car dealer was slapped with a 42-month jail package by a Bulawayo magistrate for brutally striking a police officer with an empty beer bottle on the forehead resulting in him sustaining a deep cut.
Brandon Hingi (25) from Nketa 8 suburb carried out the savage and supposedly alcohol-fuelled attack on Christopher Chindiya (27) on 16 May 2021 at the Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC which was allegedly operating in violation of Covid-19 lockdown rules. In Zimbabwe lockdown laws prohibit nightclubs and bars from operating.
Hingi is, however, going to spend 30 months in jail after 12 months of his sentence were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour by Bulawayo provincial magistrate Tavengwa Sangster who convicted him on his own plea of guilty to a charge of assault.
In coming up with the sentence Sangster took into consideration the fact that the assault from the observation of the doctor had ‘‘very’’ serious after-effects.
“There was a danger to life in that complainant may experience intra-cranial bleeding. There is also a possibility of permanent disability in that the complainant may develop problems of secondary brain concussion such as fits,” observed Sangster.
He adds: “The possibility of bleeding in the head as well as permanent disability must not be taken lightly. A fine or community service will not do justice in this case. This will trivialise the offence and therefore, encourage would-be offenders. Only imprisonment is suitable for such attacks on another.”
The court proved that on 16 May 2021 and at around midnight, the complainant was at Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC in the company of his friend. As they were going out of the club, the complainant’s friend lost his phone. He then accused Hingi of having taken it and that caused a misunderstanding between the two.
Chindiya then approached the accused who was arguing with his friend over the stolen cellphone. The accused then hit the complainant once on the forehead with an empty beer bottle.
Complainant sustained a cut on the forehead and was referred to hospital for medication. The matter was reported to the police leading to Hingi’s arrest.
In mitigation, Hingi pleaded for leniency saying his girlfriend was expecting and that when he committed the offence, he was angry that the complainant’s friend had falsely accused him of stealing his cellphone.-B-Metro
A FUMING man confronted his mother-in-law at her home and slapped her and also assaulted her with a chair for failing to give him back his television set that he had lent her.
Simamba Ndlovu (50) who stays in Nkulumane suburb left his home in a huff and went to Tshabalala suburb where his mother-in-law Everist Makuleya (70) and his other in-laws live.
He got there at around 8.45pm and did not even knock at the door, but pushed the door open and stormed in, said an insider.
His mother-in-law was in her bedroom. He allegedly shouted obscenities while demanding his television set which he had lent her when they had a private function.
It is alleged his mother-in-law got out of her bedroom to talk to him about the issue so that they could solve it amicably without any tension.
Ndlovu manhandled his mother-in-law before he slapped her on the face, the source said. He ran amok and picked a chair and allegedly hit her once on the head causing her to tumble to the ground, said a source close to investigations.
Makuleya screamed for help and while she was wriggling on the floor in agony, neighbours thronged her home and rescued her from the furious Ndlovu.
They bundled Ndlovu into a car and drove to a police station where a report was made, a source said.
He appeared for trial before Western Commonage magistrate Ulukile Ndlovu facing a physical abuse charge.
He pleaded not guilty.
He was remanded out of custody to next week on Monday when he would know his fate.- B-Metro
Ngezi Platinum extended their winning streak in the Chibuku Super Cup after beating FC Platinum 2-1 at Mandava Stadium this Thursday.
Substitute Bruno Mutigo scored a quick-fire brace to inspire Ngezi Platinum to a come-from-behind 2-1 win after FC Platinum had scored through Silas Songani in the 38th minute.
As Ngezi pressured, in search of an equaliser in the second half, FC Platinum defender Gift Bello lost his cool and was red-carded for remonstration.
Ngezi took advantage of their numerical edge and found a formula to beat their opponents.
The Mhondoro team now is on top of Group 4 log table with nine points, after winning all their three games, while FC Platinum are second on six.
They, however, lost their talisman, Denver Mukamba who sustained an injury and its magnitude could not be determined. He has been instrumental to Ngezi Platinum’s performance since the commencement of the Chibuku Super Cup tourney.- State media
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa has described the rampant abuse of drugs in the country as worrisome.
The wishes and expectations of young are crucial in the nation building process, according to President Chamisa.
“THE FUTURE IS EXCITING..I met this Jnr Mp whose aspiration is just to live in a country where everything works.
My conversation with this young talent is assuring.We owe it to posterity to fix the broken. We’ve a duty to deal with drug abuse and manners among our young people.”
Commenting on ZINASU leader, Takudzwa Ngadziore’s accident, President Chamisa said:
“Keep leading, struggle is the language of the oppressed! All the best.Wishing you a quick recovery.”
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa has described the rampant abuse of drugs in the country as worrisome.
The wishes and expectations of young are crucial in the nation building process, according to President Chamisa.
“THE FUTURE IS EXCITING..I met this Jnr Mp whose aspiration is just to live in a country where everything works.
My conversation with this young talent is assuring.We owe it to posterity to fix the broken. We’ve a duty to deal with drug abuse and manners among our young people.”
Commenting on ZINASU leader, Takudzwa Ngadziore’s accident, President Chamisa said:
“Keep leading, struggle is the language of the oppressed! All the best.Wishing you a quick recovery.”
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed party structures to oversee the process of recruiting known activists into the police force, ZimEye.com has established.
Analysts say Mr Mnangagwa wants to use the police and the army to manipulate electoral processes.
According to WhatsApp chats seen by ZimEye.com, Zanu PF is already recruiting its sympathizers into the police force.
This, according to political observers, will further compromise the ZRP’s operations.
“Tell our people who are interested in joining the ZRP to forward their names.Please note that this is a directive from the authorities.We have to make sure that our people join the police force.
Please compile the list of those interest as soon as people.
This should be conveyed to true Zanu PF youths because they have to join the police force,” a Zanu PF councillor identified as Matsaure wrote on WhatsApp.
Tinashe Sambiri|The unleashing of dogs on hapless informal traders by the Zanu PF regime is a sign of gross incompetence, the MDC Alliance has said.
Informal traders are mere victims of Zanu PF’s monumental misgovernance, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Below is MDC Alliance Namibia’s full statement: The unleashing of vicious Police Dogs on innocent young people and informal traders is absolutely satanic, Mdc Alliance Namibia supposes.
03 June 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia District absolutely condemns the satanic and anti-poor policies being unleashed by desperate Zanupf onto the helpless informal sector in Chitungwiza and Mutare. As an external assembly led by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we subscribe to the pro-poor social liberation policies that respect vulnerable members of the society.
We fully distance ourselves from any attempt by the sadist central government to decimate the livelihoods of vendors and other informal traders who are victims of unemployment and ZANUPF’S gross misgovernance.
It is quite pathetic that in Chitungwiza, overzealous, Mr Muguti (the Zanupf-appointed Provincial Development Co-ordinator of Harare Metropolitan) has instructed the Acting Town Clerk, Mrs Machona to violently and arbitrarily unleash the partisan Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) on the vendors. They are seeking to evict hungry informal traders from their places of work without giving them any meaningful remedies. We are convinced that this anti-poor people gesture is unlawful as it is being carried out without a court order or any reasonable measures to secure alternative workstations in violation of the vendors’ right to due process.
Moreover, it is critical that there is no council resolution to support the proposed inhuman , sadist and unconstitutional evictions. We further lampoon the heavy-handedness of the captured Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare. The unleashing of vicious dogs on young people and informal traders going about their daily business is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Mdc Alliance Namibia echoed that there is no space for such barbaric conduct in a constitutional democracy hence citizens must converge for complete change in Zimbabwe.
As a matter of law and procedure , informal traders can only be removed from where they are undertaking their trade in circumstances where council provides alternative trading spaces for them to operate. No alternative spaces have been provided which renders any attempt to evict the defenceless vendors arbitrarily and grossly unreasonable. Zanupf Satanists must spare our people from anti-poor agenda and commence to upgrade our People’s Livelihoods. We demand a People’s Government as part of our #Agenda2021 where we are urging all progressive citizens to converge for change.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia wants to warn the clueless Zanupf belly politicians in Harare to desist from interfering with the work of the local council and allow them to peacefully and effectively manage local issues as provided for in the 2013 Constitution instead of employing various organs of the central government to mar the upliftment of social services. Moreso , the insensitive regime is obliged to intervene to even cut or neutralise the negative and detrimental effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on the capacity of the people and business to generate income unlike obstructing them to fend for their starving families.
Fundamentally, we call upon the moronic Zanupf government and their surrogates to fully implement the devolution provisions of the Supreme Law of the country to ensure that local authorities have the autonomy to run their own affairs and budget to support vision and plans in line with our Local Government Agenda.
To wind it up, the senseless banning of begging and vending at traffic intersections unravels the heartlessness of a monocratic regime that has dismally failed to put the economy on a sound footing.
We need #PeoplePower to peacefully and democratically resist Law enforcement agents who take instructions for the Shake Shake building.
WHO Director-General Special Awards for World No Tobacco Day announced: Minister of Health India and University of Bath for exceptional achievement in tobacco control.
Smokers face a 40 – 50% higher risk of developing severe disease and death from COVID-19. WHO partners with Viber, WhatsApp, FB Messenger, WeChat and AI company Soul Machines to reach billions with free digital quitting tobacco aids. The World Health Organization’s ‘Commit to Quit’ tobacco campaign has made resources from its Quitting Toolkit freely available to more than a billion tobacco users, less than 5 months into the year-long campaign.
WHO launched the campaign to support those millions of tobacco users who are actively taking steps to save their lives, but still need help to succeed.
The campaign is currently working directly with 29 focus countries. Each country agreed with WHO on selected activities, including, running national awareness campaigns, releasing new digital tools, revising policies, engaging youth, training health workers, opening new cessation clinics, supporting nicotine replacement therapies through WHO partners, establishing national toll-free quit lines, making quitting courses available, and more.
“Smokers have up to a 50% higher risk of developing severe disease and death from COVID-19, so quitting is best thing smokers can do to lower their risk from this coronavirus, as well as the risk of developing cancers, heart disease and respiratory illnesses,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “We urge all countries to play their part by joining the WHO campaign and creating tobacco-free environments that give people the information, support and tools they need to quit, and quit for good.”
“To help tobacco users to commit to be quitters and winners, we are using digital aids to release the WHO Quit Challenge chatbot and Artificial Intelligence digital health worker Florence, and making advocacy material available in 30 languages,” added Dr Rüdiger Krech, Director Health Promotion, WHO.
The Quit Challenge gives daily notifications of tips and encouragement for up to 6 months to help people remain tobacco free. It is available for free on WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger and WeChat.
Globally, roughly 39% of men and 9% of women use tobacco. The highest smoking rates are currently found in Europe at 26%, with projections only showing a 2% decrease by 2025 if urgent government action is not taken.
Director-General’s Tobacco Control Awards
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has given special recognition awards for tobacco control to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare of India, Dr Harsh Vardhan and to the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, UK.
Dr Harsha Vardhan was instrumental in the 2019 national legislation that bans E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in India. The Tobacco Control Research Group in UK has worked relentlessly to expose tobacco industry attempts and tactics to weaken, block or delay tobacco control, thereby helping secure policy change nationally and globally.
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FORMER MDC Alliance deputy treasurer Lillian Timveos was yesterday appointed board member for PetroTrade a few months after she defected to the ruling Zanu PF party.
Lillian-Timveos
Timveos, who served as Midlands senator under the MDC Alliance before she was recalled by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T, will now sit on the PetroTrade board chaired by lawyer Tino Chinyoka and deputised by Zanele Dube.
Other PetroTrade board members are Simba Mhuriro, Gladys Mumhure, Ferida Matambo, Getrude Marabada and Godfrey Ncube.
The MDC Alliance said Timveos’ appointment did not come as a surprise to them as every defector from the opposition to Zanu PF was rewarded shortly after their exit.
Former MDC-T vice-president Obert Gutu was also recently appointed to the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission after he ditched opposition politics.
“Zanu PF abuses State resources and it is not surprising that they will appoint people like Timveous as a reward for joining them,” said MDC Alliance deputy party spokesperson Clifford Hlatywayo.
“State institutions and bodies must be independent and board appointments must not be seen as the extension of the failed party. There is no independence of institutions in the country.”
But Timveos told NewsDay: “These are sour grapes, the MDC Alliance is finished. It is a confused bunch and who follows such a party that has let Zimbabweans down? Their in-house fights have spiralled out of control and they have rendered the opposition useless.” -Newsday
All informal traders including car dealers operating along road servitudes in Harare Metropolitan province have been given three days to vacate their premises and destroy any developments done, provincial development coordinator Mr Tafadzwa Muguti said.
In a statement today, Mr Muguti said Government has noted with great concern the rising number of unregistered traders of furniture, bricks, sand, quarry stones and car sale businesses operating along servitudes.
“We hereby inform all occupants of road servitudes that they have until Sunday 7 of June 2021 to vacate and remove all their property, vehicles and destroy any infrastructure erected on road servitudes,” he said. -Herald
There was drama yesterday after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretariat, but government sought to reverse his decision.
Justice Webster Chinamhora recused himself from the three-judge panel in the morning after lawyers representing Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika, who is the applicant in the matter, asked for his recusal following revelations that he met with JSC secretary Walter Chikwana ahead of the hearing of the case.
Critics say the meeting was meant to pressure the judges to make a ruling in favour of Chief Justice Malaba which would seriously compromise their independence. Justice Chinamhora then recused himself, confirming that he had, indeed, met with Chikwana.
The remaining two judges, Justices Amy Tsanga and Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba then consulted the JSC, which ruled that they could proceed and hear the matter as a two-judge panel.
The case against Chief Justice Malaba came after his term of office as Chief Justice ended a fortnight ago, with the High Court ruling that he ceased to be the country’s top judicial officer on May 15 when he turned 70 and that a recent constitutional amendment allowing the President to extend his term did not apply to him.
Last week, Chief Justice Malaba returned to office under the belief that the High Court ruling had been suspended by an appeal filed by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya.
However, Kika, who challenged the extension of Chief Justice Malaba’s term in the initial case, argued that an appeal against the declarator suspends the operation of the judgment and has asked the High Court to find Chief Justice Malaba in contempt and jail him for six months.
The matter was adjourned to the afternoon, but before it could be heard, Chief Justice Malaba’s lawyer Advocate Lewis Uriri, together with Ziyambi’s lawyer Thembinkosi Magwaliba, and JSC lawyer Addington Chinake immediately made an application for leave of appeal against Justice Chinamhora’s recusal.
Uriri represented President Emmerson Mnangagwa when opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa challenged the Zanu PF leader’s victory in the July 30, 2018 presidential election. Chief Justice Malaba presided over the case and ruled in Mnangagwa’s favour.
The lawyers argued that a decision had already been made by the appointing authority to the effect that a three-judge panel should hear the matter.
“The proceedings of the chambers are not part of the hearing. They are just incidental proceedings which do not have an effect because they are not substantial proceedings. The appeal had prospects of success,” Uriri said.
Magwaliba also argued that the recusal of Chinamhora would affect the rights of his client, Ziyambi, as a litigant if the judge does not return to the bench to constitute a three-judge panel, which would form a quorum before the matter was heard.
However, Kika’s lawyer Thabani Mpofu argued that there was no prejudice to Chief Justice Malaba, Ziyambi or the JSC if the matter was heard by two judges given that ordinarily, such matters could be heard by a single judge.
“This is a piecemeal appeal. Piecemeal appeals ought to be dismissed by the court. One member of the High Court is properly constituted. There is no merit in the application. Its prospects for success are zero. This is a properly constituted court. This application is vexatious and meant to waste time,” he said.
“There is a tendency of forum shopping and I urge the court to frown on that. Regrettably, it gives the impression that the Executive is protecting the first respondent (Chief Justice Malaba).”
In her ruling, Justice Tsanga in concurrence with Justice Chirawu-Mugomba dismissed the appeal saying it had no prospects of success.
She said they had consulted the appointing authority, JSC, which gave them the go-ahead to hear the matter as a two-judge panel.
“The process of approaching a judge in the chambers can’t be divorced from the hearing of the application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. The recusal of the judge (Chinamhora) from the panel is part of the proceedings. We have come to the decision that the application for leave of appeal to the Supreme Court is dismissed because it has no prospects of success and it is hereby dismissed,” Justice Tsanga said.
During the court proceedings before the two-judge panel, Kika’s lawyer Mpofu argued that Chief Justice Malaba was in contempt of court because the order which was granted by High Court judges, Justices Happias Zhou, Edith Mushore and Jester Helena Charehwa, three weeks ago, was a declarator which could not be suspended by the noting of an appeal by Ziyambi and Machaya.
“The declarator barred the first respondent (Chief Justice Malaba) to exercise the duties of a Chief Justice as he had ceased to be one when he turned 70 years. He complied with the order for the first 10 days, but what he has done after the 10 days is in contempt of court,” Mpofu submitted.
He said Ziyambi’s appeal filed on May 27 did not solve the matter.
“If the minister’s appeal had solved anything, he couldn’t have filed an appeal. I submit that by seeking shelter under the minister’s appeal, he was in contempt of court,” Mpofu added.
In his submissions, Uriri said Chief Justice Malaba did not commit any offence as the declaratur had been suspended by the noting of appeal by Ziyambi.
“He noted his own appeal because the full judgment was only availed on May 27 with all the reasons. That’s why he had to file his own appeal after seeing the reasons. The declarator is not a declarator because it can only be a declarator if it’s pure,” he said.
Justice Tsanga then quizzed him in relation to his assertion that the declarator was impure. “Sorry, I don’t like to use this example, but I want clarity. Are you saying cocaine is not cocaine unless it’s pure?” she asked.
Chinake argued that the declarator had not taken away the right of Chief Justice Malaba to be heard.
“He has an absolute right to be heard through an appeal and an appeal suspends the declarator order. So, the first respondent (Malaba) didn’t commit any contempt of court crime,” Chinake said.
The proceedings dragged on up to 5:45pm when the two judges then reserved judgment to next week. Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza yesterday swore in six former High Court judges as Supreme Court judges. The six are Justices George Chiweshe, Alpheus Chitakunye, Samuel Kudya, Felistas Chatukuta, Joseph Musakwa and Hlekani Mwayera.
Justice ministry secretary Virginia Mabhiza said among other duties, the newly sworn-in judges would play a pivotal role in assisting the justice system in the country to clear outstanding cases at the Supreme Court.
“This is a very important event in the Judiciary calendar and this is a constitutional requirement. The newly-appointed judges will help in clearing cases at the Supreme Court and make sure that cases are heard on time,” she said.- Newsday
By A Correspondent- Lilian Timveous, former top MDC-Alliance officials who recently sold out and joined Zanu PF has been absorbed into the Petro Trade board.
Petrol Trade is a government parastatal that falls under, Energy and Power Development Ministery led by Zanu PF’s Zhemu Soda.
Other Petrol Trade board members appointed together with Timveous are Advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka who is the board Chairperson deputised by Mrs Zanele Dube, Mrs Gladys Mumhure, Mr Simbabrashe Eric Mhuriro, Mrs Ferida Matambo, Ms Getrude Marabada, Mr Godfrey Ncube and Mr Dakarai Mukuku.
THE relief on the face of CAPS United coach, Darlington Dodo, was clear when he appeared at the post-match media conference at the National Sports Stadium yesterday.
The Green Machine gaffer was full of praises, for his charges, after his team came from a goal down to snatch an important victory, against Herentals, in a Chibuku Super Cup match.
Makepekepe badly needed a victory, after making a slow start in this competition, by drawing their first two games in Group One.
Striker Tinashe Balakasi and midfielder Blessing Sarupinda, delivered the important goals for the Green Machine, either side of the break.
Herentals had taken an early lead, courtesy of Gibson Chinobva’s fifth-minute penalty conversion.
The victory meant Makepekepe dislodged eternal rivals Dynamos, at the top of the table, ahead of Glamour Boys’ match against ZPC Kariba, in another Group One match.
The outcome of the match will set an interesting stage for Sunday’s Harare Derby, pitting the two traditional rivals, who are now battling for control of Group One.
“We had some good moments and, some other moments, which we feel we can improve on,” said Dodo.
“But, the most important aspect was to make sure that we grind a positive result, which is a win.
“This win was long overdue, I am glad for the boys, for the hard work they put in, after coming back from behind again and, fortunately, managing to score a winning goal.
“As a team and, personally as the coach, I think the feeling was that we wanted such a positive result, to make sure that we get into the winning groove.
“We know what we haven’t been doing right in the previous games — it was conversion and we were conceding in open play.
“But, we didn’t concede in open play in this game, it was a penalty awarded to them and there was nothing we could do.”
Makepekepe found themselves trailing, after conceding a disputed penalty, just five minutes into the game.
Herentals, who again thrust into the starting line-up their 49-year-old club owner Innocent Benza, had some fine opportunities, to increase their lead early on, but they could capitalise.
The Green Machine levelled terms, following a defensive error by the Students, with Balakasi making a fine run, and beating the ’keeper with a rising shot, after 22 minutes.
Earlier, the former Harare City man had missed a good opportunity, after heading a ball swung in from a free-kick by left-back Brendon Mpofu, just wide.
Mpofu looked good with his crosses and was on point with the set-pieces, which deservedly won him, the man-of-the-match award.
He had an effort tipped over the bar by goalkeeper Frank Kuchineyi moments after the restart.
Herentals midfielder, Charles Lumbilani, twice came close but dragged his shot wide, after the CAPS defenders were caught napping, following a quick free-kick, taken by Benza.
Goalkeeper Tonderai Mateyaunga then went airborne, to stop a close range header and keep the scores balanced, going into the half-time break.
But, Ronald Chitiyo could have made the difference, at the other end, only for his long range effort to come off the woodwork, with the ‘keeper beaten.
Chitiyo still played a huge part in CAPS United’s win, after working his way on the left, before crossing the ball into the path of Sarupinda, in the 62nd minute.
The midfielder responded with a well-placed header.
CAPS United are now top of the table with five points from three games.
Dynamos are second with four points, with a game in hand, while Herentals are still winless, with two points from three games.
Their coach, Kumbirai Mutiwekuziva, took responsibility for yesterday’s defeat.- Chronicle
By A Correspondent-A depraved Chimanimani couple was sentenced to 11-years each in jail after they connived to rape a 14-year-old juvenile.
Diamond Mupeta (24) who was employed as a security guard at Gwendingwe Estate in Chimanimani and his wife Prosperity Marange (20) were convicted on their guilty pleas when they recently appeared before Chipinge regional magistrate, Farisi Chakanyuka, facing a rape charge.
It is in the States case that on the 6th of April, Marange went to the complainant’s homestead and asked the sister to allow the complainant to look after her maize fields in her absence.
The complainant’s sister allowed Marange to take the complainant to her homestead and chase away baboons from the fields.
The court heard that Marange left for an unknown destination and upon her return, she asked the complainant to marry her husband, Mupeta, who was also in the hut.
The complainant reportedly turned down Marange’s request, arguing that she was still too young for marriage.
However, Marange continued pestering her and also told her that she also got married at a young age.
Marange forcefully grabbed the complainant’s left hand and closed the door. It is further alleged that Mupeta requested to be intimate with the complainant, but she refused.
After she refused, Mupeta went on to push the complainant to the ground and she screamed for help.
To silence her screams, Marange allegedly gagged her mouth with a blanket.
Manica Post reports that Marange then went out of the hut and left Mupeta to rape the juvenile.
After the act, Mupeta told the complainant not to tell anyone. He left the hut and went back to Gwendingwe Estate.
Marange later accompanied the complainant home and also instructed her not to divulge the assault to anyone.
The matter only came to light on April 8 when the complainant’s sister discovered that she was having difficulties in walking.
When she was quizzed, the complainant narrated what had transpired and a report was made to the police, thereby leading to the couple’s arrest.
By A Correspondent- The Emmerson Mnangagwa government has said that it wants to exhume bodies of 157 Zimbabwean Cyclone Idai victims who were buried in Mozambique in 2019, while ignoring the plight of thousands who survived the natural disaster.
The Mnangagwa administration said DNA tests will be undertaken to positively identify the exhumed bodies with known graves in Mozambique.
Mnangagwa’s ally, who is the Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo, announced this development to the state media.
“As you may be aware, the immediate impact of Cyclone Idai was the loss of 347 lives with 344 people still missing who are now deemed dead. “The names of the 203 of the 344 missing people are now known from information provided by villagers where they lived. Modalities by Government pathologists to exhume and repatriate bodies of the 157 who were buried in Mozambique remains a priority,” he said.
By A Correspondent- Police in Mutare has arrested several Zanu PF supporters who are suspected to be against the ruling President Emmerson Mnangagwa after they had staged a demonstration and forcibly opened two flea markets that were shut down by the local authority last year as a safety measure against Covid-19.
The Zanu PF activists, who likely face charges of breaching coronavirus regulations, on Tuesday broke into Chidzere and Sakubva markets and parcelled out 3,000 vending stalls amongst themselves.
Riot police intercepted their procession and made arrests as the boisterous protestors marched towards the city centre, singing and waving placards, local city press reported.
Mutare town clerk Anthony Mutara said of the arrests: “Order is very important in any society for the survival of us all,” according to the ManicaPost newspaper.
By A Correspondent-Several Zanu PF supporters Tuesday forcibly opening two flea markets that were shut down by the local authority last year as a safety measure against Covid-19.
The rowdy party activists broke into Chidzere and Sakubva markets and parcelled out 3,000 vending stalls amongst themselves.
Riot police intercepted their procession and made arrests as the boisterous protestors marched towards the city centre, singing and waving placards, local city press reported.
Mutare town clerk Anthony Mutara said of the arrests: “Order is very important in any society for the survival of us all,” according to the ManicaPost newspaper.
By A Correspondent- The Zanu PF government this week ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s visit to Bulawayo, spruced up the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo statue which his family rejected in 2010.
The statue was mounted in December 2013 at the intersection of 8th Avenue and Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street.
The late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo’s family and the Bulawayo community in 2010 refused to honour the veteran politician’s statue saying that it did not meet certain standards, which included the size of the pedestal and the country which made it.
But Zanu PF ignored these complaints and went ahead to erect the statue.
By A Correspondent- Prices of commodities in some shops recently went up following the announcement of Statutory 127 of 2021 which introduced measures that regulate the foreign currency exchange rate.
SI 127 of 2021 introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, through the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Financial Laws Amendment) Regulations, forced businesses to use the US$1: ZWL$84 exchange rate.
The Statutory Instrument also made it illegal to give customers a discount for paying for goods or services in foreign currency, refuse to take local currency payments at the official exchange rate and issue Zimbabwe dollar receipts for goods paid for in foreign currency.
Industry flatly rejected the SI and has openly opposed the move.
Other commodities whose prices have increased Mazoe Orange Crush, a cordial drink, washing powder, meat, and toothpaste.
By A Correspondent-Outspoken clergyman, Rev Dr Kenneth Mtata is being considered for the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary post whose elections are scheduled to take place on 19 June 2021.
Mtata is one of the two candidates, the other is Rev. Anne Burghardt from Estonia, who are poised to be the new leader of the communion of churches. In a statement, LWI said the two candidates are:
Rev. Anne Burghardt
Current position: Head of Development, EELC Institute of Theology; Advisor for International and Ecumenical Relations, EELC
Church: Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Country: Estonia
Rev. Dr Kenneth Mtata
Current position: General Secretary, Zimbabwe Council of Churches
Church: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe
Country: Zimbabwe
A search committee of 7 members, was appointed by the Council to receive nominations and present candidates for election.
The chair of the committee, Canadian Bishop Susan Johnson, informed LWF President Archbishop Dr Panti Filibus Musa that the committee has concluded its work and is proposing these two candidates for election.
She commended both candidates for their leadership skills, pastoral sensitivity, and wide experience of the global communion of 148 member churches. Said Bishop Johnso
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa today toured Museums in Bulawayo and ignored mass graves of people he killed during the Gukurahundi massacres in the early 1980s.
He toured the Heritage Corridor, Inxwala Grounds; Hanging Tree; Cde Joshua Nkomo Statue; St Mary’s Basilica; Joshua Nkomo Museum; and National History Museum.
After the tour, he was Guest of Honour at the Bulawayo Arts Festival.
By A Correspondent- A Karoi District Hospital ambulance driver, an escort nurse and two patients died after the ambulance they were travelling in collided with a two-tonne truck that was travelling to Kariba at the 196-kilometre-peg along Harare-Chirundu highway near Buffalo Downs on Wednesday.
The driver was identified as Laurence Lundu (39) while the escort nurse was identified as Marjury Matutu (age not given).
The patients, identified as Patricia Murisa was an 18-year-old pregnant woman and the other Tichaona Matashu (47) a victim of a previous road traffic accident, had both been transferred to Chinhoyi Hospital for further treatment.
Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident saying the ambulance encroached onto the lane of the oncoming truck which tried to avoid a head-on collision by moving to the right but was hit by the ambulance.
All four died on the spot while the driver of the truck, Ryan Murembe of Harare ran away from the scene, and his two passengers who sustained injuries were taken to Karoi hospital for treatment.
WHO Director-General Special Awards for World No Tobacco Day announced: Minister of Health India and University of Bath for exceptional achievement in tobacco control.
Smokers face a 40 – 50% higher risk of developing severe disease and death from COVID-19. WHO partners with Viber, WhatsApp, FB Messenger, WeChat and AI company Soul Machines to reach billions with free digital quitting tobacco aids. The World Health Organization’s ‘Commit to Quit’ tobacco campaign has made resources from its Quitting Toolkit freely available to more than a billion tobacco users, less than 5 months into the year-long campaign.
WHO launched the campaign to support those millions of tobacco users who are actively taking steps to save their lives, but still need help to succeed.
The campaign is currently working directly with 29 focus countries. Each country agreed with WHO on selected activities, including, running national awareness campaigns, releasing new digital tools, revising policies, engaging youth, training health workers, opening new cessation clinics, supporting nicotine replacement therapies through WHO partners, establishing national toll-free quit lines, making quitting courses available, and more.
“Smokers have up to a 50% higher risk of developing severe disease and death from COVID-19, so quitting is best thing smokers can do to lower their risk from this coronavirus, as well as the risk of developing cancers, heart disease and respiratory illnesses,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “We urge all countries to play their part by joining the WHO campaign and creating tobacco-free environments that give people the information, support and tools they need to quit, and quit for good.”
“To help tobacco users to commit to be quitters and winners, we are using digital aids to release the WHO Quit Challenge chatbot and Artificial Intelligence digital health worker Florence, and making advocacy material available in 30 languages,” added Dr Rüdiger Krech, Director Health Promotion, WHO.
The Quit Challenge gives daily notifications of tips and encouragement for up to 6 months to help people remain tobacco free. It is available for free on WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger and WeChat.
Globally, roughly 39% of men and 9% of women use tobacco. The highest smoking rates are currently found in Europe at 26%, with projections only showing a 2% decrease by 2025 if urgent government action is not taken.
Director-General’s Tobacco Control Awards
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has given special recognition awards for tobacco control to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare of India, Dr Harsh Vardhan and to the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, UK.
Dr Harsha Vardhan was instrumental in the 2019 national legislation that bans E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in India. The Tobacco Control Research Group in UK has worked relentlessly to expose tobacco industry attempts and tactics to weaken, block or delay tobacco control, thereby helping secure policy change nationally and globally.
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Tinashe Sambiri|The unleashing of dogs on hapless informal traders by the Zanu PF regime is a sign of gross incompetence, the MDC Alliance has said.
Informal traders are mere victims of Zanu PF’s monumental misgovernance, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Below is MDC Alliance Namibia’s full statement: The unleashing of vicious Police Dogs on innocent young people and informal traders is absolutely satanic, Mdc Alliance Namibia supposes.
03 June 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia District absolutely condemns the satanic and anti-poor policies being unleashed by desperate Zanupf onto the helpless informal sector in Chitungwiza and Mutare. As an external assembly led by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we subscribe to the pro-poor social liberation policies that respect vulnerable members of the society.
We fully distance ourselves from any attempt by the sadist central government to decimate the livelihoods of vendors and other informal traders who are victims of unemployment and ZANUPF’S gross misgovernance.
It is quite pathetic that in Chitungwiza, overzealous, Mr Muguti (the Zanupf-appointed Provincial Development Co-ordinator of Harare Metropolitan) has instructed the Acting Town Clerk, Mrs Machona to violently and arbitrarily unleash the partisan Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) on the vendors. They are seeking to evict hungry informal traders from their places of work without giving them any meaningful remedies. We are convinced that this anti-poor people gesture is unlawful as it is being carried out without a court order or any reasonable measures to secure alternative workstations in violation of the vendors’ right to due process.
Moreover, it is critical that there is no council resolution to support the proposed inhuman , sadist and unconstitutional evictions. We further lampoon the heavy-handedness of the captured Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare. The unleashing of vicious dogs on young people and informal traders going about their daily business is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Mdc Alliance Namibia echoed that there is no space for such barbaric conduct in a constitutional democracy hence citizens must converge for complete change in Zimbabwe.
As a matter of law and procedure , informal traders can only be removed from where they are undertaking their trade in circumstances where council provides alternative trading spaces for them to operate. No alternative spaces have been provided which renders any attempt to evict the defenceless vendors arbitrarily and grossly unreasonable. Zanupf Satanists must spare our people from anti-poor agenda and commence to upgrade our People’s Livelihoods. We demand a People’s Government as part of our #Agenda2021 where we are urging all progressive citizens to converge for change.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia wants to warn the clueless Zanupf belly politicians in Harare to desist from interfering with the work of the local council and allow them to peacefully and effectively manage local issues as provided for in the 2013 Constitution instead of employing various organs of the central government to mar the upliftment of social services. Moreso , the insensitive regime is obliged to intervene to even cut or neutralise the negative and detrimental effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on the capacity of the people and business to generate income unlike obstructing them to fend for their starving families.
Fundamentally, we call upon the moronic Zanupf government and their surrogates to fully implement the devolution provisions of the Supreme Law of the country to ensure that local authorities have the autonomy to run their own affairs and budget to support vision and plans in line with our Local Government Agenda.
To wind it up, the senseless banning of begging and vending at traffic intersections unravels the heartlessness of a monocratic regime that has dismally failed to put the economy on a sound footing.
We need #PeoplePower to peacefully and democratically resist Law enforcement agents who take instructions for the Shake Shake building.
Tinashe Sambiri|The unleashing of dogs on hapless informal traders by the Zanu PF regime is a sign of gross incompetence, the MDC Alliance has said.
Informal traders are mere victims of Zanu PF’s monumental misgovernance, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Below is MDC Alliance Namibia’s full statement: The unleashing of vicious Police Dogs on innocent young people and informal traders is absolutely satanic, Mdc Alliance Namibia supposes.
03 June 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia District absolutely condemns the satanic and anti-poor policies being unleashed by desperate Zanupf onto the helpless informal sector in Chitungwiza and Mutare. As an external assembly led by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we subscribe to the pro-poor social liberation policies that respect vulnerable members of the society.
We fully distance ourselves from any attempt by the sadist central government to decimate the livelihoods of vendors and other informal traders who are victims of unemployment and ZANUPF’S gross misgovernance.
It is quite pathetic that in Chitungwiza, overzealous, Mr Muguti (the Zanupf-appointed Provincial Development Co-ordinator of Harare Metropolitan) has instructed the Acting Town Clerk, Mrs Machona to violently and arbitrarily unleash the partisan Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) on the vendors. They are seeking to evict hungry informal traders from their places of work without giving them any meaningful remedies. We are convinced that this anti-poor people gesture is unlawful as it is being carried out without a court order or any reasonable measures to secure alternative workstations in violation of the vendors’ right to due process.
Moreover, it is critical that there is no council resolution to support the proposed inhuman , sadist and unconstitutional evictions. We further lampoon the heavy-handedness of the captured Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare. The unleashing of vicious dogs on young people and informal traders going about their daily business is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Mdc Alliance Namibia echoed that there is no space for such barbaric conduct in a constitutional democracy hence citizens must converge for complete change in Zimbabwe.
As a matter of law and procedure , informal traders can only be removed from where they are undertaking their trade in circumstances where council provides alternative trading spaces for them to operate. No alternative spaces have been provided which renders any attempt to evict the defenceless vendors arbitrarily and grossly unreasonable. Zanupf Satanists must spare our people from anti-poor agenda and commence to upgrade our People’s Livelihoods. We demand a People’s Government as part of our #Agenda2021 where we are urging all progressive citizens to converge for change.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia wants to warn the clueless Zanupf belly politicians in Harare to desist from interfering with the work of the local council and allow them to peacefully and effectively manage local issues as provided for in the 2013 Constitution instead of employing various organs of the central government to mar the upliftment of social services. Moreso , the insensitive regime is obliged to intervene to even cut or neutralise the negative and detrimental effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on the capacity of the people and business to generate income unlike obstructing them to fend for their starving families.
Fundamentally, we call upon the moronic Zanupf government and their surrogates to fully implement the devolution provisions of the Supreme Law of the country to ensure that local authorities have the autonomy to run their own affairs and budget to support vision and plans in line with our Local Government Agenda.
To wind it up, the senseless banning of begging and vending at traffic intersections unravels the heartlessness of a monocratic regime that has dismally failed to put the economy on a sound footing.
We need #PeoplePower to peacefully and democratically resist Law enforcement agents who take instructions for the Shake Shake building.
Warriors coach Zdravko Logarusic flew back into the country yesterday.
Logarusic
The firebrand tactician had gone to his native Croatia when the Warriors finished the AFCON qualifying campaign in March.
Zimbabwe was supposed to take on neighbours and rivals South Africa this weekend, before the World Cup qualifiers were postponed to September.
Logarusic helped Zimbabwe cross the line in terms of AFCON qualification, having taken over from interim coach Joey Antipas in January last year.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Warriors striker Terrence Dzvukamanja scored the winner for Orlando Pirates, in their 2-1 win over Baroka, in a DStv Premiership match played yesterday.
The former Bidvest Wits striker returned from injury in the Soweto giants’ 0-1 defeat to TS Galaxy last Sunday.
Just like last week, he came off the bench, but this time, he was decisive.
Just seconds after coming on, and with the clash headed for a draw, Dzvukamanja headed home Wayde Jooste’s brilliant cross in the 88th minute to seal all three points for Pirates.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Warriors vice captain Ovidy Karuru’s Black Leopards will play in the Glad Africa Championship next season, after they were relegated from the DStv Premiership yesterday.
The ‘Masvingo Mosquito’ moved Lido Daduvha as a free agent in the middle of the current season after parting ways with Cape Town-based Stellenbosch.
He scored six goals in all competitions but his exploits could not save the Limpopo-based side from the chop.
Their 1-3 defeat to Cape Town City yesterday sealed their fate.
Karuru is yet to put pen to paper to a new deal though, as he openly told the club’s chairman David Thidiela that he would wait to see if the club can survive relegation, before inking a new deal.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa has described the rampant abuse of drugs in the country as worrisome.
The wishes and expectations of young are crucial in the nation building process, according to President Chamisa.
“THE FUTURE IS EXCITING..I met this Jnr Mp whose aspiration is just to live in a country where everything works.
My conversation with this young talent is assuring.We owe it to posterity to fix the broken. We’ve a duty to deal with drug abuse and manners among our young people.”
Commenting on ZINASU leader, Takudzwa Ngadziore’s accident, President Chamisa said:
“Keep leading, struggle is the language of the oppressed! All the best.Wishing you a quick recovery.”
Antonio Conte is nearing a return to the English Premier League after he began talks with Tottenham for a possible deal.
According to reports in England, negotiations have advanced quickly and Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has already discussed personal terms with the gaffer who left his job as the manager of Inter Milan last Wednesday.
And the Italian is now the front runner to succeed Jose Mourinho at the London side after efforts to lure Mauricio Pochettino for a second spell failed as PSG are reluctant to let go of their manager.
Should a deal be completed, this will mark the return of Conte to England after spending two seasons at Chelsea between 2016 and 2018 where he won the league title in his first year.
Levy is also trying to recruit former Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici as he considers going back to a two-tier management structure.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed party structures to oversee the process of recruiting known activists into the police force, ZimEye.com has established.
Analysts say Mr Mnangagwa wants to use the police and the army to manipulate electoral processes.
According to WhatsApp chats seen by ZimEye.com, Zanu PF is already recruiting its sympathizers into the police force.
This, according to political observers, will further compromise the ZRP’s operations.
“Tell our people who are interested in joining the ZRP to forward their names.Please note that this is a directive from the authorities.We have to make sure that our people join the police force.
Please compile the list of those interest as soon as people.
This should be conveyed to true Zanu PF youths because they have to join the police force,” a Zanu PF councillor identified as Matsaure wrote on WhatsApp.
|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed party structures to oversee the process of recruiting known activists into the police force, ZimEye.com has established.
Analysts say Mr Mnangagwa wants to use the police and the army to manipulate electoral processes.
According to WhatsApp chats seen by ZimEye.com, Zanu PF is already recruiting its sympathizers into the police force.
This, according to political observers, will further compromise the ZRP’s operations.
“Tell our people who are interested in joining the ZRP to forward their names.Please note that this is a directive from the authorities.We have to make sure that our people join the police force.
Please compile the list of those interest as soon as people.
This should be conveyed to true Zanu PF youths because they have to join the police force,” a Zanu PF councillor identified as Matsaure wrote on WhatsApp.
WHO Director-General Special Awards for World No Tobacco Day announced: Minister of Health India and University of Bath for exceptional achievement in tobacco control.
Smokers face a 40 – 50% higher risk of developing severe disease and death from COVID-19. WHO partners with Viber, WhatsApp, FB Messenger, WeChat and AI company Soul Machines to reach billions with free digital quitting tobacco aids. The World Health Organization’s ‘Commit to Quit’ tobacco campaign has made resources from its Quitting Toolkit freely available to more than a billion tobacco users, less than 5 months into the year-long campaign.
WHO launched the campaign to support those millions of tobacco users who are actively taking steps to save their lives, but still need help to succeed.
The campaign is currently working directly with 29 focus countries. Each country agreed with WHO on selected activities, including, running national awareness campaigns, releasing new digital tools, revising policies, engaging youth, training health workers, opening new cessation clinics, supporting nicotine replacement therapies through WHO partners, establishing national toll-free quit lines, making quitting courses available, and more.
“Smokers have up to a 50% higher risk of developing severe disease and death from COVID-19, so quitting is best thing smokers can do to lower their risk from this coronavirus, as well as the risk of developing cancers, heart disease and respiratory illnesses,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “We urge all countries to play their part by joining the WHO campaign and creating tobacco-free environments that give people the information, support and tools they need to quit, and quit for good.”
“To help tobacco users to commit to be quitters and winners, we are using digital aids to release the WHO Quit Challenge chatbot and Artificial Intelligence digital health worker Florence, and making advocacy material available in 30 languages,” added Dr Rüdiger Krech, Director Health Promotion, WHO.
The Quit Challenge gives daily notifications of tips and encouragement for up to 6 months to help people remain tobacco free. It is available for free on WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger and WeChat.
Globally, roughly 39% of men and 9% of women use tobacco. The highest smoking rates are currently found in Europe at 26%, with projections only showing a 2% decrease by 2025 if urgent government action is not taken.
Director-General’s Tobacco Control Awards
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has given special recognition awards for tobacco control to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare of India, Dr Harsh Vardhan and to the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, UK.
Dr Harsha Vardhan was instrumental in the 2019 national legislation that bans E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in India. The Tobacco Control Research Group in UK has worked relentlessly to expose tobacco industry attempts and tactics to weaken, block or delay tobacco control, thereby helping secure policy change nationally and globally.
Source : World Health Organization
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The Court hearing the contempt of court charges against former CJ Malaba will now sit at 2pm to consider if a two-judge bench can proceed. This follows the recusal of one of the judges. @adv_fulcrum@WilbertMandind1@Noble7pic.twitter.com/HyJCqkJ3qG
— Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (@ZimHRNGOForum) June 3, 2021
Lawyers for the former CJ and Justice Minister have requested permission to appeal against the composition of the bench as a two judge bench. @adv_fulcrum is opposing the request. Adv Mpofu castigates the respondents for ostensibly trying to get a favourable judge. @Wamagaisapic.twitter.com/DUGUa7ppDt
— Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (@ZimHRNGOForum) June 3, 2021
The court hearing in Malaba's contempt of court has resumed. The hearing will proceed with 2 judges as Justice Chinamhora recused himself. Chinamhora confirmed that he had a meeting with the JSC Secretary Walter Chikwana. JSC is party to the hearing. pic.twitter.com/2zvnUAMQ7o
— Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (@ZimHRNGOForum) June 3, 2021
Justices Tsanga and Chirawu-Mugomba have dismissed the application for leave to appeal against the composition of the bench saying they are no prospects of success. The hearing is proceeding.
— Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (@ZimHRNGOForum) June 3, 2021
Tinashe Sambiri|The unleashing of dogs on hapless informal traders by the Zanu PF regime is a sign of gross incompetence, the MDC Alliance has said.
Informal traders are mere victims of Zanu PF’s monumental misgovernance, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Below is MDC Alliance Namibia’s full statement: The unleashing of vicious Police Dogs on innocent young people and informal traders is absolutely satanic, Mdc Alliance Namibia supposes.
03 June 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia District absolutely condemns the satanic and anti-poor policies being unleashed by desperate Zanupf onto the helpless informal sector in Chitungwiza and Mutare. As an external assembly led by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we subscribe to the pro-poor social liberation policies that respect vulnerable members of the society.
We fully distance ourselves from any attempt by the sadist central government to decimate the livelihoods of vendors and other informal traders who are victims of unemployment and ZANUPF’S gross misgovernance.
It is quite pathetic that in Chitungwiza, overzealous, Mr Muguti (the Zanupf-appointed Provincial Development Co-ordinator of Harare Metropolitan) has instructed the Acting Town Clerk, Mrs Machona to violently and arbitrarily unleash the partisan Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) on the vendors. They are seeking to evict hungry informal traders from their places of work without giving them any meaningful remedies. We are convinced that this anti-poor people gesture is unlawful as it is being carried out without a court order or any reasonable measures to secure alternative workstations in violation of the vendors’ right to due process.
Moreover, it is critical that there is no council resolution to support the proposed inhuman , sadist and unconstitutional evictions. We further lampoon the heavy-handedness of the captured Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare. The unleashing of vicious dogs on young people and informal traders going about their daily business is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Mdc Alliance Namibia echoed that there is no space for such barbaric conduct in a constitutional democracy hence citizens must converge for complete change in Zimbabwe.
As a matter of law and procedure , informal traders can only be removed from where they are undertaking their trade in circumstances where council provides alternative trading spaces for them to operate. No alternative spaces have been provided which renders any attempt to evict the defenceless vendors arbitrarily and grossly unreasonable. Zanupf Satanists must spare our people from anti-poor agenda and commence to upgrade our People’s Livelihoods. We demand a People’s Government as part of our #Agenda2021 where we are urging all progressive citizens to converge for change.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia wants to warn the clueless Zanupf belly politicians in Harare to desist from interfering with the work of the local council and allow them to peacefully and effectively manage local issues as provided for in the 2013 Constitution instead of employing various organs of the central government to mar the upliftment of social services. Moreso , the insensitive regime is obliged to intervene to even cut or neutralise the negative and detrimental effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on the capacity of the people and business to generate income unlike obstructing them to fend for their starving families.
Fundamentally, we call upon the moronic Zanupf government and their surrogates to fully implement the devolution provisions of the Supreme Law of the country to ensure that local authorities have the autonomy to run their own affairs and budget to support vision and plans in line with our Local Government Agenda.
To wind it up, the senseless banning of begging and vending at traffic intersections unravels the heartlessness of a monocratic regime that has dismally failed to put the economy on a sound footing.
We need #PeoplePower to peacefully and democratically resist Law enforcement agents who take instructions for the Shake Shake building.
Tinashe Sambiri|The unleashing of dogs on hapless informal traders by the Zanu PF regime is a sign of gross incompetence, the MDC Alliance has said.
Informal traders are mere victims of Zanu PF’s monumental misgovernance, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Below is MDC Alliance Namibia’s full statement: The unleashing of vicious Police Dogs on innocent young people and informal traders is absolutely satanic, Mdc Alliance Namibia supposes.
03 June 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia District absolutely condemns the satanic and anti-poor policies being unleashed by desperate Zanupf onto the helpless informal sector in Chitungwiza and Mutare. As an external assembly led by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we subscribe to the pro-poor social liberation policies that respect vulnerable members of the society.
We fully distance ourselves from any attempt by the sadist central government to decimate the livelihoods of vendors and other informal traders who are victims of unemployment and ZANUPF’S gross misgovernance.
It is quite pathetic that in Chitungwiza, overzealous, Mr Muguti (the Zanupf-appointed Provincial Development Co-ordinator of Harare Metropolitan) has instructed the Acting Town Clerk, Mrs Machona to violently and arbitrarily unleash the partisan Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) on the vendors. They are seeking to evict hungry informal traders from their places of work without giving them any meaningful remedies. We are convinced that this anti-poor people gesture is unlawful as it is being carried out without a court order or any reasonable measures to secure alternative workstations in violation of the vendors’ right to due process.
Moreover, it is critical that there is no council resolution to support the proposed inhuman , sadist and unconstitutional evictions. We further lampoon the heavy-handedness of the captured Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare. The unleashing of vicious dogs on young people and informal traders going about their daily business is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Mdc Alliance Namibia echoed that there is no space for such barbaric conduct in a constitutional democracy hence citizens must converge for complete change in Zimbabwe.
As a matter of law and procedure , informal traders can only be removed from where they are undertaking their trade in circumstances where council provides alternative trading spaces for them to operate. No alternative spaces have been provided which renders any attempt to evict the defenceless vendors arbitrarily and grossly unreasonable. Zanupf Satanists must spare our people from anti-poor agenda and commence to upgrade our People’s Livelihoods. We demand a People’s Government as part of our #Agenda2021 where we are urging all progressive citizens to converge for change.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia wants to warn the clueless Zanupf belly politicians in Harare to desist from interfering with the work of the local council and allow them to peacefully and effectively manage local issues as provided for in the 2013 Constitution instead of employing various organs of the central government to mar the upliftment of social services. Moreso , the insensitive regime is obliged to intervene to even cut or neutralise the negative and detrimental effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on the capacity of the people and business to generate income unlike obstructing them to fend for their starving families.
Fundamentally, we call upon the moronic Zanupf government and their surrogates to fully implement the devolution provisions of the Supreme Law of the country to ensure that local authorities have the autonomy to run their own affairs and budget to support vision and plans in line with our Local Government Agenda.
To wind it up, the senseless banning of begging and vending at traffic intersections unravels the heartlessness of a monocratic regime that has dismally failed to put the economy on a sound footing.
We need #PeoplePower to peacefully and democratically resist Law enforcement agents who take instructions for the Shake Shake building.
ZIMBABWE at the dawn of independence 1980 they implement a range of policies and social transformation programmes targeting the previously oppressed, and this indeed becomes a season of hope for tangible demonstrable reasons.
It is hard to ignore the early gains of a liberated country as Zimbabwe experienced the Reconstruction and Development Programme , Truth and Reconciliation Commission, dramatically increased representation of women and youth in government, social security, rolling out of social infrastructure as electricity and roads to previously neglected areas ,The season of hope lifted the mood of the society in anticipation of more great things to come and the charters and manifestos that had been crafted during the struggle are often understood literary as guiding implementation documents that will be followed religiously. The spirits are so high that the national mood is punctuated by winning sports teams, hosting of global events, improving social, economic and political indicators as change is in the air and liberation movement in power seem to keep the promise until we are soothed into believing that history will not happen to us, we shall bark the trend of history, we are unique and we have learnt from those who committed mistakes before.
In fact liberation movements seem to take a leaf and lessons from the book of their former oppressors with such amazing proficiency.
Something almost like magical political alchemy happens before our disbelieving eyes. The very same political elite that had led the country to independence grow increasingly more autocratic, a corruption based on political patronage becomes the DNA of political practice often aided and interpenetrated by the corporate sector, inequalities sharply increase as money is everywhere except where it is most needed, poverty levels increase, social cohesion and reconciliation project sports teams catch the fever and losing becomes their key performance area.
Divisions and discord within the ruling liberation movement lead to purges, smear campaigns, killings and rewriting of history becomes the hallmark of a once-glorious liberation movement Ironically, when a liberation movement falters, it intensifies its invocation of this glorious history and frequency of political rituals to invoke history, even if grossly mis-represented in its reproduced remix. The society is treated to a regular diet of history even though their material conditions deteriorate.
This history often place those who are in full insurrection against liberation history at the apex almost suggesting that they deserve everything they have, including public resources, because of their role in liberation history.
A political aristocracy’s strenuous effort to cling to power produce a political universe with its insulated logic cast against a society numbed into disbelief.
By A Correspondent| Former MDC Alliance senator Lilian Timveos has been appointed to the Petrotrade board in what clearly exposes the new dispensation’s politics of patronage.
Timveos hails from Zvishavane, Midlands which is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hometown and province.
The Petrotrade board is chaired by lawyer and Zanu PF apologist Tino Chinyoka who is from Gweru, Midlands province again.
The Court hearing the contempt of court charges against former CJ Malaba will now sit at 2pm to consider if a two-judge bench can proceed. This follows the recusal of one of the judges. @adv_fulcrum@WilbertMandind1@Noble7pic.twitter.com/HyJCqkJ3qG
— Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (@ZimHRNGOForum) June 3, 2021
FOUR people from Mudhindo,Guruve are nursing injuries from machete gangs who are terrorising Mudhindo in search of gold.
The gangs who are said to be from Midlands are being accommodated by a local villager identified as Mbela.
This promitted Guruve South legislator Patric Dutiro and Chief Bepura to summon village heads on Wednesday and map a way forward in dealing with the matter.
The village heads told the law maker and the chief that they now live in fear of these machete wielding gangs.
“Machete gangs are now terrorising our area four people are battling for life as we speak from machete attacks after Mbela accommodated (Mashurugwi), it is now dangerous to move at night because you can be a victim,” lamented one village head.
“These gangs are also pouncing on our young daughters spreading Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), MP and Chief may you please act because our area has become one of the dangerous place to live.”
Chief Bepura blamed the police for failing to contain the situation as they take bribes from gold miners.
“The biggest problem in this area is our police they have become so corrupt to the effect that they cannot even enforce the law as they are mandated to do,” Chief Bepura said.
“I have engaged them several times but no action is being taken these gangs are known and it should not take them time to arrest them but because they are corrupt they prioritize money more than their job and my people are now at risk.”
Chief Bepura said when Mbela came with his gangs he thought they were just visitors who came for a few days in search of the precious stone and would soon leave but instead they have become villagers in his area.
“When Mbela came with these gangs l thought they were just visitors who wanted to mine for days and go back to their homes, little did l know that we have accommodated criminals who were on a mission to destroy my area,” he added.
The village heads called for the ministry of mines to temporarily close Mbela’s claim and make sure the gangs are driven away from Mudhindo.
Dutiro said he heard all the consents of the villagers and will soon act on the issue.
“I have heard all your consents the ministry of mines is aware of this meeting from here I am going to their offices and tell them what you said, I am also doing the same to the police since we have some here they have seen how bitter you are over this issue,” Dutiro said.
He further noted that machetes were dangerous weapons which needed to be taken away by the police and concured with village heads who called for transfers in the police force.
ZANU PF youth national member Paul Rwodzi blasted Mbela and his gangs for disrespecting the chief.
“This miner (Mbela) is very disrespectful to the chief he was summoned by the chief to discuss about his claim and he never came that’s an insult to the chief, one of his gang was also summoned to the traditional court for impregnating a minor and he clearly stated that he does not attend traditional courts hence we do not people who do not respects our traditional chiefs,” Rwodzi said.
“Last week the game gang fired warning shots which really sent terror to villagers because the only sound they know is that of a whip not a gun but no arrests have been made police is not acting as the chief said.”
Rwodzi promised to call Minister of Home Affairs Kazembe Kazembe to meet the disgruntled villagers.
“We know you are willing to talk to Minister of Home Affairs Kazembe it is not a problem since he is the chairperson of this province next week he is gracing a field day at Whitemore I am sure he will just pass by and you tell him your issues.”
Women in mining in Guruve expressed fear and urged the government to take stiffer measures on machete gangs.
Zimbabwe Mining Federation (ZMF) Mashonaland Central province secretary for women affairs Chipo Salome Muzulu said hooliganism should end.
“I am hearing that machete gangs have resurfaced in our area and as women in mining we are now afraid to do our mining activities because machete gangs harass and victimise women,” Muzulu said.
“Hooliganism should end hence we are appealing to government and law enforcement agencies to put stiffer measures on these hooligans as we rally behind operation chikorokoza ngachipere.”
Police in the past years pounced heavily on illegal miners and machete gangs especially at Mazowe mine (Jumbo) which had become a death trap due to machete wielding gangs.
